You're right, AI definitely fills in those gap, I just think that even real creators with expensive and high end equipments are threatened by what AI can do and how it's also threatening to replicate their workflow. I think a lot of people are trying to use AI to do criminal things and one of them is just simply copy originality without making it better in any sense.

I tend to create new image whenever I write a post instead of recycling, I think because I prefer to have something new all the time.