I agree on an emotional level, but now I’m starting to wonder exactly why. Something similar from an illustrator would not be provoking to me. Still working it

I agree on an emotional level, but now I’m starting to wonder exactly why. Something similar from an illustrator would not be provoking to me. Still working it out, but here’s a theory: when I’m sifting through stuff I’m looking for things that people spent time on. I have a pretty decent radar for effort, and effort is a good proxy for interesting. Even if I find it wrong or insightless, I still respect that people spend the time to express themselves. However, these AI images are tricking my effort-heuristic and I’m annoyed that my attention has been temporarily hijacked someone spent 2 seconds on. This isn’t a new phenomenon, I’ve always been like this when I stumble across eg ads and low effort content marketing. I think this cringe/cheesy feeling might be more a reaction to how it was made than the content itself.