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Its definitely an interesting case study in human behavior.
Marking it as AI-generated and then laughing that people critique it is a weird bait-and-switch that preys on people taking things at face value. We've come to have baseline trust that when something is marked X, its because it is X. But that's something different.
People (IMO) don't like AI generated art because of both the lack of actual thought put into it as well as taking away from people who put their all into actually creating art that then is cribbed by AI generators.
Combine those two factors and of course you'll have people taking knee-jerk reactions. I'd be interested in seeing how many people did call out that it was a real Monet, rather than a cool person copy-pasting reactions that met the expected outcome. I tried looking at replies but only have his "gotcha" reply showing up on nitter* instances.
Also: holy shit this guy is kind of a dick on twitter in general lol
Edit: spelling