The loss of originality is one of the most minor problems people have with ai. *My* problem with ai is taking jobs because companies would rather use a robot instead of paying workers, scraping from artists who do art as their job, consuming loads of electricity and water (one chatgpt query = ~10 google searches), ai centers causing housing crises, ai companies being bribed by israel to feed their ai models zionist propaganda, among many more issues.
sure, using a silly meme jpeg someone uploaded 5 years ago might be as uncreative as prompting gemini to generate a puppy riding a motorcycle, but one was made by a human, and that’s a large difference.
so go ahead and rage if you want, but you’re missing the big issue here