I’m not trying to be rude when I say I honestly do not get how the pic is stomach turning or what AI has to do with it.

Can you [speaking generally here] not find an image of chinese people flipping the bird? Or do you think that this was the only way to express this sentiment?

It's not even a good machine generated image; you have a ghost hand directly in the center of the image and all the human figures are in an uncanny valley of what a white person thinks chinese people generally look like. This means that you didn't even care to re-generate the image or go through any sort of QA process or iteration. If you want to use machine generated images why not take a page out of the Iran playbook and use it to generate something interesting and over the top instead of creating a facsimile of a human photograph that looks like shit. Saying that memes look like shit and we should just focus on the message is a terrible attitude to have (not to mention that I can't even read the text on the image, there is no message for me)

You have a program that is capable of generating the most elaborate, jaw dropping images at record pace and you use it in the most boring way. It's uninspired and pathetic.