Buyers of stock images typically want/need unreal perfection, no matter how cringe or unnatural they look.

Not surprised, but the backlash is brewing.

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Well, AI "art" and "photography" is cringe. Masses in general love cringe. The bigger cringe the more popular it gets (think about reality shows vs something that's actually good content, which one is significantly more popular?). So nothing really surprising there.