Seeing other people’s AI art is like hearing other people’s dreams

If you've been on Twitter (or Discord or plenty of other places) this month and your feed is anything like mine, it's currently full of weird machine-generated text and art. The launch of ChatGPT, Lensa, and other tools has made a once difficult-to-access tool ubiquitous, and the result is an explosion of people posting their interactions with artificial intelligence.
I love these tools, and I've been playing with them for a while now - at least since the release of AI Dungeon 2 in 2019. But over the years, I've realized there's a huge gap between the way I experience work I generate and work created by someone else. The closest way I can describe it is this: seeing somebody else's AI art is like hearing the plot of someone else's dream....