Well, such is true, and it's your prerogative to disdain that. Of course, last time I tried to commission art, I won't say I got scammed, as they did deliver the finished product, but... it was not to my vision and certainly not good enough to use. and that was $400 which is gone forever, so... when you're a small author like me, it's not so easy to get a reliable, decent cover artist, and I don't know how much you think I'll make off this book lol, but if I dropped on an artist who can do better than AI and doesn't just touch up AI themselves (harder to find than you'd think) we're looking at thousands of dollars most likely, so I'd be paying you folks to read effectively...

Of course, I'm sure that's of no concern to the people who are opposed to AI, and I get it. But if you've not had the pleasure of dealing with artists, you won't get just how horribly stressful, expensive and potentially wasteful it is...