While I also have a distaste for AI stock photos, their crappiness just highlights the fact that a stock photo already meant "This article does not need a pictu

While I also have a distaste for AI stock photos, their crappiness just highlights the fact that a stock photo already meant "This article does not need a picture to communicate anything, but I know that articles with a picture perform better than articles without, so I will exert the least possible effort and expense to add a picture to this article". It's just that now there's an even cheaper way to do that.