> I think there's still quite a huge gap between optimized and perfected version of thing that exists versus thing that entirely does not exist

Neither the images created by ChatGPT nor an artists rendition of a latte exist, but based on this logic you’d have a problem with both?

I think most people are just reacting to the careless default style of ChatGPT, or the fact that a human didn’t draw it, not the fact that it’s not “real”.