I don't think this has anything *really* to do with why NYC felt so fake in the movie (when you have to shoot the whole city in a 3-block part of Glasgow, you really don't get the vibe right), but it's absolutely a bad look.
The art book for ‘SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY’ reveals that generative AI was used in concept design of NYC for the film.
(Source: thedirect.com/article/spid...)