Sometimes the medium is the message though. Especially in literature, prose matters. It's not just about what is said but also how.

This applies even in "low" art. AI generated imagery from mainstream models tends to be so ugly it detracts from effectively communicating what the prompter intended.

I don't we disagree a little bit, I think. Content and substance also contains "how" alongside "what". At least that was my intention.

I stopped sharing my photos publicly to stop supplying training data for image generation models. I don't want to feed that machine.