You touched upon the substance of what we're witnessing et large with AI. Stuff feels hollow and worthless even though it looks amazing. Graphics, images, video, music, text, code..

So, what's the deal?

As with ANY work in life, the quality of the result is a direct reflection of care and intention behind it. Simplified, it's a reflection of how much _you_ put effort in it. It always shows. Even in AI day and age. It's just that path to a result (without effort) is now way shorter so volume is showing up and diluting the overall impression. The latter kind of cheapens every field it touches, so even more effort will have to be put in to show up on the radar.