I’ve noticed every chud grifter and politician (same thing, am I right? HAW HAW dad joke owl) seems to use AI art. For memes, for video thumbnails, for their dumb articles that only your 60 year old estranged relative reads, for their shitty Twitter “gotchas”. They love that shit. The uglier the AI generated slop is the better. Why do you think that is? Lack of talent? Hatred of artists? What drives this love of poor quality?
I don’t think this accounts for all of it (I think the other posts here have a lot of valuable insight) but one little note I’d make is that I think right-wingers tend to be very uncritical in their consumption of art and often have a very poorly developed ability to evaluate something as art. Art is often ‘good’ if it has a surface-level moral that is good, or if it is ‘pretty’ in a nondescript way. The point of art is to be didactic and AI can achieve that very low standard, so there’s nothing to sound any alarms about how ugly or ridiculous the imagery actually is; that would require paying attention to the image longer than they are willing to think about it.
I think it’s the logical conclusion of the same phenomenon someone like Big Joel is always observing in the media right-wingers produce. Art is shackled to their messaging and their messaging sucks. With rare exceptions this is the obvious result of that process. AI generated images take the amount of effort they would willingly put into their messaging to create.