I have been feeling the same way. I was initially excited experimenting with AI art for a while but quickly felt that a lot of the results were very uninteresting. If anything it has made me more interested in real human made art and want to improve my own photography skills.
I think AI for generating documents and code can be a useful tool and the bots can sometimes be a bit of fun but I’m not interested reading much that is AI generated.
I think it’s the story of the human who makes the art - their entire experience is what makes something interesting.
Kind of like furniture. You can buy an IKEA piece of furniture and not think twice about it. Or buy a handcrafted piece and marvel and the skill that was accumulated over time to make that thing - and appreciate it more in the process.
Or food - mass produced burger vs made on the spot by someone you know or a chef. Very different vibes to them.
I think also with AI art there is a difference between someone who just enters a few words an accepts whatever it generates as “art” compared to someone who has spent time learning in detail how the generator works or building their own models so that they can create something that matches their vision. I think that maybe comes closer to human art.
