I think AI art is great for people who want to create without purpose and mindlessly consume.
The artist to cooperate pay pig pipeline. I honestly thought AI art was a government psy-op to discourage artist, to increase desperation in the labor pool, so potential artist become high voltage line walkers to service the machine.
Real tools like photoshop and Autocad are already way too expensive for independent artist. AI is just more expensive bullshit, and the cost will only go up. Pay the new price or be replaced by a more affluent prompter.
Real artist should keep on studying. Even if you use AI, you should study.
As if anything else in life needs to be more mindless clicking.