Meanwhile, the average person only sees results. They do not seem to share your fundamental aversion to how a JPG was made. They didn’t experience whatever grand philosophical journey produced it. It doesn’t need to be artisanal grass-fed human Art.™ It either provokes an emotional response, or not.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19368623.2024.2368040

And people can still say something with works they did not make themselves… as you’re doing right now.

Are you seriously suggesting that sharing something made by somebody else is the same as it being made by nobody at all?