Thoughts
The reason AI generated content, when passed off as having value*, is nauseating to a lot of people, including me, is that
it's possible to use AI to generate text/images which appear indistinguishable from human creative works at first. However, the AI content by definition lacks the human element which makes human work valuable. Because it imitates human art or personhood, it is deceptive and thus I lose all of my ability to respect it in the ways that it is beautiful and true.
There are lots of different metaphors I could use since I'm talking generally. I'll share a couple small examples. If you take picture on a Hawaiian island and show it to me, but I later find that you've used photoshop to increase the saturation and remove elements, I find it less appealing than the unedited picture, even though it's more beautiful. If you show me a beautiful cake, but cut into it to find dirt and mud, I hate it even though it's objectively impressive that you've managed to create a beautiful cake out of dirt. I enjoy looking at the face of my friend, and I can enjoy talking to you, but if you steal the face of my friend and talk to me, I'm going to be horrified.
AI can only be appreciated for what it is if it's not trying to imitate or replace humans.
*I use ChatGPT, but I don't think of the result as being a creative or valuable work in itself. I don't share it with people, I don't save it for my own future reference. It's like a Google search. It has utility value, sure, it's useful. But it's not valuable as a "work".