in ATLA it became a running gag to have the world populated by animals we recognize as some kind of chimeric combo of animals we recognize. I can imagine this made it easier on the writers/animators when brainstorming an animal into the story, setting or scene. they even lampshaded it as a trope with the earth king's pet bear Bosco, who was remarked on as being weird, because he was "just" a bear.

the distinction between that and this b.s., is that this is stupid and would still require a shitload of human work in determining how they behave in response to human activity, their environment/disturbance, what they eat, and all the other details that make a fantastical animal seem real.

this is just the laziest prompt slop reel. it's disembodied images. and because it was generated in about 10 seconds of thought, nobody is going to be interested in looking at it for more than 10 seconds.

that's the think I feel like these weird AI fanatics can't seem to grasp... like you can get an AI to generate a 10,000 story by writing a 30 second prompt, but why would I want to take the time to read it? why wouldn't I just feed it back into the AI to sum it up in 30 words. if no one took the time and effort to make it, why is there an expectation for anyone to analyze and appreciate it?