Maybe it's just me, but while I have an issue with text slop, GenAI images never bothered me. My experience is that they're only really used where the alternative would have been a lazy stock photo or clipart image. And in these cases, it seems to me that writing a prompt is actually more of an artistic expression than the even more minimal effort that they likely would have spent on taking the first image they would have found on google.
Maybe it's just me, but while I have an issue with text slop, GenAI images never bothered me. My experience is that they're only really used where the alternative would have been a lazy stock photo or clipart image. And in these cases, it seems to me that writing a prompt is actually more of an artistic expression than the even more minimal effort that they likely would have spent on taking the first image they would have found on google.