>It's the implication that I never asked for these specific images that truly impressed me. I never asked for a picture of forest or cottage or mountain. I asked them questions that only a thinking and feeling agent could answer.

Except that's not true. A chatbot that emulates a thinking and feeling agent can answer them too. And that's what it does. I know that it feels impressive, but these chatbots are just predictions machines that are really good at predicting what a human would say given the prompt and context of the conversation.

Also, you're the one that plugged it into the text to image maker. It would be no different than if you had just drawn it by hand. It's not like the image outputted is actually what it was imagining, you're using two different systens.