One of my basic assumptions about how the world is supposed to work is that you cannot just take someone's else's work, repackage it and pass it off as your own without attribution or compensation.

When someone at work has taken my report, rewritten the words in a different order, and presented it as their own work, I have called them out on it and my boss has been furious with them. How dare they take credit for someone else's work!

It is a basic moral right, usually protected under law.

AI "art" invites such viseral reactions because it is theft, pure and simple.

It is corruption.

It is a macabre parody of someone else's hard work - stolen, without fair attribution - and reproduced in a twisted way without intention, craft or insight.

We loathe it with the core of our beings because we see it for what it is.

AI cannot think. At all. It is a giant database of rulesets programmed by millions of exploited workers into environment-destroying machines to reassemble human endeavours without their knowledge or permission, in order to replace human workers with the explicit intention of increasing unemployment.

It's hard to think of any technology that has broken so many ethical boundaries all at the same time. It makes the world worse in almost every conceivable way.