Ag subsidies made them cheaper to both produce and purchase than good food, and they were engineered and focus-grouped to produce cheap one-note flavor hits to our reward centers at the expense of the full richness and variety of good food.

The analogy is pretty good. AI will always be much cheaper than paying an artist, and it’s default trained to make the most generally appealing stuff it can based on its input of human art (though you can tweak its style, etc.)