A mod is a labor in which you're expected to work for free. Usually they're made for one's personal enjoyment, then shared with others (or there wouldn't be a mod database).
You folks say that you'd prefer something made in MS Paint in a few minutes, or a retouched stock photo, but I don't think that's coming from a place of honesty. There's no effort put into any of these, but only one of them seems to invoke a Pavlovian response. (I.e., you've trained yourself to feel ick when you see it.) It's not the lack of effort that makes the image bad. It's because you don't like AI, therefore the AI image must be bad.
I think it's different when people are accepting money for things, but generated images are just programmer art of the present day. If someone's art skills are crap, society shouldn't force them to attempt art. It's a waste of everyone's time. (As a perfectionist, I spent hours on school projects, and it still looked like crap at the end. I will not inflict this on future generations.)
I'm certainly not going to suggest someone implement their own bug-filled array class just because using std::vector would be lazy. You can expend great effort to produce slop, and anyone encouraging that is doing a disservice.
Let the witch hunt begin.