Doug wants to be a filmmaker, he wants to make art, but he can't, because he's a fundamentally incurious person who isn't much interested in what other people think or feel and all his ideas boil down to 'what if Batman met Mario?'
- Folding Ideas, "The Nostalgia Critic and The Wall"
Dan Olsen deployed this scathing criticism of Doug Walker specifically to shine a light on a desire to create art while simultaneously (and consciously) refusing to engage with art.
And for the life of me, I cannot think of a better descriptor of AI art and those who promote it.
Also where the line "Cringe, there's no other word for it. It makes me cringe, it's embarrassing" comes from, which also describes most AI art