AI-generated pictures, e.g. at the start of a Substack newsletter, are starting to feel like drone footage, which has become ubiquitous in e.g. Netflix documentaries: They both opened up a cheap way to do something that used to cost time and money to do well, they rapidly became omnipresent yet instantly recognizable as what they are, they’re all very samey in their feel, and tbh I’m pretty damn tired of them already.