> if I hired a professional artist to draw a picture of a pelican riding a bicycle,

I think AI folks have done a terrible job of communicating this, but replacing a professional simply isn't the point. The point is to serve all the situations where people would've never considered hiring a professional, and where perfection or artistic merit isn't the point (say a personal throwaway recreation of an LOTR world).

And I think in that regard the benchmarks are pretty good.