AI image generation or The Loss of Humanity

Art has been around since the dawn of humanity, it is the externalization of someone's lived experience, therefore it is something fundamentally linked to the human experience. If society were to collapse, art would emerge again.
Generative AI on the other hand has no lived experience, no emotion, no thoughts, it is just mathematics, a bunch of probabilities to predict which word must come after another. Its knowledge of the world is based on its training data, which must come from real people, if the training data is generated it will progressively lose touch with reality and start to hallucinate.

There is not one cause behind the adoption of generative AI by companies or individuals. It could be greed, some generative AI models have free plans, therefore between paying an individual or replacing them with AI, companies will choose the latest.
It could be individualism, it is not rare for someone to want to do everything on their own, for them using generative AI would be a way to keep everything under their control and save time.
It could be laziness, some people just don't want to spend time a make efforts into learning something and they only care about the end result.

In any case, Gen AI with its ease to use and its cost is making art disposable and skills feel irrelevant despite not being an expert in anything and constantly making mistakes. Because it is mistaken as an all-knowing machine, and because of its nature to agree with everything, the user will be unaware of missing elements or mistakes, resulting in sub-quality outputs.

Art is not only about the end result, it is also an experience, which can be social if it involves multiple individuals, such as a painter with their model, or a musician with their bandmates, the examples don’t lack.
Relegating the whole creative process to a machine deprive individuals of these social experiences.