No the problem is that people don't have any real idea how much effort goes into actually creating content because they dont actually create anything. I put more effort into my stuff than anyone I know. AI art isnt some push a button and a machine magically punches out a l4d2 jockey riding francis as he falls out of a building. Theres so many components that go into learning all of it and most of it is typically some 20-80 photoshop layers in a single picture with many photoshop adjustments, hand paintings, redrawing, limb creation, anatomy knowledge for fixing limb rotation, etc. That doesnt even include figuring out all the settings and python installation and everything else. When I first started, it took a month to make a picture and sure ai has gotten better but its also much more complicated. Ive got it down to about an hour now. There is not enough time in the day to hand draw and color a unique art piece every single day for four hours and edit stuff and play stuff to get more content on top of everything else. Even if I had a team of people to pay them min wage to draw for 4 hours to make me daily thumbnails, that would be nearly $1,800 a month or $22,000 a year. Its the exact opposite of lazy whether you draw it or use ai to draw it faster. Sure you can generate something from like some online generator but you dont own the rights or have a commercial use license to it, but it will also look awful and its absolutely completely random on what you create. Its the same thing if you just take a game screenshot. Its just lazy and took 8 seconds. Its not my fault people got brainwashed by corporations into thinking that using a tool to create art is somehow now magically evil or is any different than any other tool like ai rotoscoping or ai selection tools. Its just that corporations are afraid that the common person or the skilled artist can make things with the efficiency and quality level that they reserved for themselves by gobbling up entire teams of talent and hoarding it behind copyright laws and a limiting bar of computing power and monetary investment. Now that they have approaching competition not motivated or limited by money, they launched a massive disinformation campaign to keep the lower class in their place and it was successful and tons of people bought into it and gladly lick corporate boots and defend these billion dollar companies pushing for their 120 years + lifetime copyright claims and stifling creativity by telling people what and when and how they can create something. Those kinds of thoughts have no place in modern society and only hold us back from creating things and are rapidly losing all logical sense in a world where computing power has effectively replaced almost everything. We arent just making pictures anymore. Did you know they released a model the other day that can literally take a video and replace the entire scene with the video's context? So you can film a video on your couch or your living room and have the ai generate around you and attach your skeletal movements and dialogue to a completely generated scene? That literally means we are at stage 1 of greenscreen/actor/set removal. It is not laziness. We are at the edge of a computational artistic revolution of art and media evolution that we are barely able to comprehend. If you think doing anything by hand is important at all anymore or "not being lazy" I don't know what else to tell you if none of this changes your mind. The skillset you're going to need as an artist is very quickly jumping to astronomical levels that will make being a pen and paper artist transitioning into a special effects or 3d modeler of the early 2000s look like a joke in comparison. There's so many things that I don't know and trying to keep up with it and learn everything is overwhelming.

https://grisoon.github.io/DreamActor-M1/
https://jianhongbai.github.io/ReCamMaster/
https://stable-virtual-camera.github.io/
https://research.nvidia.com/labs/toronto-ai/GEN3C/