Ah, the 'Appeal to Authority' fallacy. The assumption I have no experience with these pattern recognition tools, because of my personal assessment of their actual nature, is wrong. Even if I had none should that matter? One doesn't need to be an expert in something to have an informed opinion regarding it. Is it your opinion if someone opposes this brave new world, they're clearly an ignorant Luddite? I'll remind that, 'All change is not growth as all movement is not forward.'
The "AI drawn" cartoon you use as an example demonstrates the pattern recognition point of my comment. It found the pieces and parts that best matched your prompt, whatever that was. As one inspects the result you can see the patchwork nature of the collage, or photobashing, as it is sometimes called.
This is simply photobashing on a much finer pixel by pixel basis. It's why the fingers, eyes, shadows, whole cats, are never quite right. It's programmed to arrange the patterns as closely as it can to match what the prompter requested. It didn't draw or write anything. Will it improve? Of course. They're working feverishly to perfect their plagiarism machine, and I'm sure they will. It's a race against the copyright violation lawsuits piling up.
These things are simply new tools. Developed and used conscientiously they will be a great force multiplier for smaller, independent businesses. However, they have a tremendous number of issues yet to be ironed out.
Er, no. That's not an appeal to authority. That's saying that you need to learn about AI before acting like an expert. And sticking your head in the sand isn't the way to do it.
Just because you are a Luddite, doesn't mean that people who aren't Luddites are proponents of AI. Frankly, I think AI is going to become a serious problem for humanity. SOON.
But the point is, AI is not just clever coding on the part of humans. As many people in that industry are saying, the problem with AI began when a few of the more advanced large language models started programming themselves.
Bottom line as far as I can tell: This will not end well for humans. BUT, there is no stopping technological development because if the U.S. stops, we can rest assured our enemies will not.
As an investor in the AI industry, I watch a lot of podcasts (I'm good at separating the wheat from the chaff BTW). Everyone (CEOs of AI companies, scientists who design AI, and physicists, etc. watching from the outside) is talking about what is going on in the AI labs, not what is available to the public. Though some good may come from AI, most people who are close to the labs are frankly scared of the potential for AI.
If you think AI is just some simple tool, you haven't been paying attention.