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You're kinda alluding to it yourself, your issue is with the abstract costs.

As a software dev, I hate "AI". I actually generally hate technology, period, but I digress.

That being said, lofi temporary stand-in assets are pretty much the ideal use case for generative ai. It let's you extremely quickly iterate on ideas. Think that scene from the Simpsons poochie episode where they're designing poochie... "try making him 10% more rastafarian" "no, too much".

They'll all be trash, but it would let you dial in on feel in minutes instead of weeks/months, just because the loop is so tight. It's an objectively a good tool for that specific job.

Your issue is with the ethical costs. The environment. Plagiarism. Totally valid.

But you have to recognize that no industry is going to thrown down thier tools willingly for abstract ethical concerns.

This is why regulation is critical. If the tools were objectively not good for the task, I wouldn't care about regulation because the problem will solve itself: if it's worse than the "old way", people will just go back to the old way.

But for this use case? It's better. It won't fix itself. Nobody is going to grow a conscience. Without legislation this will absolutely be the new normal.