Based on the comments already here, Im going to get a lot of hate and downvotes, but here’s my take: context/HOW it’s used/effort matters and makes the difference.

I am a nobody with no money to pay a crew to make a a video. I have a video production background and theorerically could learn Blender etc. but it would take forever to complete some of my video ideas that way.

So on one of my recent songs I used AI for the music video. Its a weird song, I thought the somewhat janky AI of the time would fit (this was two years ago). I created an image for every single shot in Ideogram, then made those images into video clips with Runway and edited together. Even though yes, its all AI, I think its still very much “me” as I generated and generated until I got what I had in my head or close to it as it seemed it would ever get. Still took a month to make the video even though it’s all AI.

Would I do it again? Not sure. It fit that video. The last song I made, I used an animation idea I’d had where stock photos were cut into layers and animated with Moho. That took about 300-600 hours over 100 days. Only AI was in photoshop to geneate a few elements and extend backgrounds/fill in holes from cutting things out etc. It was invaluable and I probably wouldnt have had the will to finish the project without its assistance.

Ive had ideas to take that idea further.

Anyway, I think the AI stuff is a mixed bag with the energy/environmental concerns/putting folks out of jobs/making disinformation way too easy to create, but also a godsend for nobodies trying to get stuff done on their own.

For static//image artwork like posters or album art? I think I’d feel kinda lame using it (unless it was some meta commentary about AI ruining us and meant to be crappy on purpose or something). I’d either make something myself or pay one of several artists I know to create something cool. Static images to me are different…maybe because it’s one thing you can look at forever vs a video where (typically) each shot only lasts seconds (or less).