GenAI image generation isn't as complex as AI "artists" make it to be

I wanted to share a thought about some things I've been hearing about the AI discourse. Some arguments I've seen written by GenAI users are that "generating art with AI is more complex than you imagine". But after thinking about it for a minute or two, it wouldn't actually be that complex for someone if it's just about prompting a bot to generate something specific.

I gotta admit I've used AI before, but it was about 2 years ago when there wasn't much active discussion about the harmful effects of GenAI. Dw, I don't use it anymore lmao. I tried to play around with AI image generators (back when I used to use it), and honestly, it wasn't that hard. Usually, tags work by letting you specify what you want and don't want to appear in the image. While parentheses emphasize how much the AI should focus on that specific tag. Then square brackets are used to specify something. So it's more about writing down keywords than sentences. So it would be something like this:

Allowed tags: ((Male)), (man), middle-aged, beard, office[1990s]

Disallowed tags: ((Female)), young, child, outside

Then you choose a bunch of settings like how often you want the AI to repeat its generation, which model you want to use, yadayada. But with all this, it's not difficult at all to generate something with this. It doesn't require any skill really and all you're doing is making an AI generate an AI you already have. Everyone has ideas; everyone can come up with ideas. The real skill comes forth in what you're doing with those ideas rather than letting a machine do it for you. Sure, you might spend some time typing in keywords and fine-tuning your generation for around 20-30 minutes. But you don't actually care about the process of creating the image. It's just that "oh yeah, cool image!" and that's it.