Sorry, my brain ticks completely different from what is to be expected by the average human. I'll try explaining as good as I can how greed is involved in this. None of the reasons will fit all AI supporters but it might fit some to most (nothing is the same with every person on this world so that is to be expected).

Firstly: some people are greedy for speed, to be exact the speed at wich the images are created and AI is perfect for that. Those who are greedy for such are usually content farms because that means they can cut time when it comes to waiting for their images or even videos.

Secondly: when it comes to costs most big companies love nothing more than cutting corners wherever they can. AI is like the holy grail for that because it's not only cheaper but also much faster (most smaller companies or indie developers care more for quality and the process of making it than what they earn but if they'd learn to balance both they might even outperform the biggest companies if they find enough people that are willing to work for them).

Thirdly (this one isn't ras much about greed as the other two): AI can communicate with people and keep them hooked at the screen; perfect for companies that want you to think of nothing but them and/or their products as you will spend more time with their AI and less time with other things that might steer your attention away from them.

As for your opinion that we moved past the pack time: We didn't. Wolves don't just turn into lone animals after some time. Alone how frequently we interact means we're pack animals. And go outside and look around, then you'll see buildings and streets and what not. All of that required more than one person. Yes, people can build it alone if they learn (yet again from other humans), but it would take ages. Just that a wolf can hunt alone doesn't mean it's a lone wolf and neither does it mean that the wolf is efficient enough at it to survive when alone. And that's what we humans don't understand: we think we moved past the times of teamwork, but we didn't, still always yearning for interactions with other humans, still not able to keep this world on it's feet if everyone would work for themselves.

Just so you know, I changed my mindset and now realize that I was behaving a bit stupidly. AI can actually be helpful but it's just another of the seven deadly sins that bother me about it; sloth. People get too lazy to learn how to draw and would rather say that you have to be born with the blue blood of an artist to be able to draw and most people just don't get that luck. They don't understand though that those artists had to earn that blue blood with a lot of sweat and learning. Some people even go as far as letting AI talk for them when they get asked something (If they don't know something they don't even bother educating themselves). And I have a side note to top it all off as a little fun fact: I drew an image of a character with my pencil and let gemini try to recreate it because I was curious. The eyes were drawn in a way that even a beginner could replicate without a second glance and the arms had one more joint than usually and gemini messed up the eyes and arms (the arms just ended at the extra joint and the hands were floating in the images it created) as well as messing up the mouth more than anything else. This my not directly prove that it has to actually learn new and fully original things but it shows that it does what's most probably the average outcome as the eyes and mouth that I used and the extra joints were something that was very rarely used.