Although I am pro AI, it must be acknowledged that AI degrades art at the level of values.

Roughly speaking, art has a process of creation and a final product. Personally, I'm only interested in the final product. But let's be honest, art isn't particularly important on any hight value level if we're only talking about the final product. Art's final product is, at best, simply a convenient way to convey information, which is certainly valuable, but it's roughly on the same level as street cleaning. A useful and important process, but hardly one you can brag about as valuable sense of life and any other high points.

I think Candid photos and other types of art that don't involve a creation process are similar in this regard and all share the same problem. However, since I didn't particularly value art initially, this isn't a problem for me, but I understand that those who value art as some kind of personal, virtual challenge to the mundane see it as something bad. I believe it's essentially made up out of nothing, but so far, nothing is more real than what a huge number of people believe and essentially create out of nothing with their actions.