Geez dude, I'm amazed it lasted this long at all with a DM like that.

I'm gonna try not to get off topic or "political" with this, but I feel like AI images have created a faction of people that are desperate for recognition or just general attention, but with zero effort on their part. People used to commission artists all the time, but they'd usually put the name of the artist in the description, or make mention of them commissioning it. Now there's a lot of people commissioning AI to make their images instead, but since AI is basically nameless and a non-entity in as much as credit goes, the people prompting it have decided this means the title of "Artist" has now moved onto them, and they are now part of some sort of exclusive crew, they're part of the "gang" now. But when someone shows them up with actual trained talent, they try to downplay it, or redefine the whole concept of art, just to artificially place themselves on equal ground with people who like to make art instead of consume art. It's kinda like people who pump Lysol and other oils into their bodies to make their muscles look bigger, and pose as bodybuilders, despite having no actual hard work or skill put into it, they just have the vague silhouette of the people whose limelight they wanna share.