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I think that's an excuse to not argue against (also, how many is 'some people?' Wiping out entire fields is not a tiny negative, much as it might be 'inevitable'). "Hey let's just wait and see shall we." There is no reason things cannot be judged as they arrive and of course those impacted more directly will judge more harshly (e.g. photo developers when digital photos arrived, digital art apps, etc).

I'm personally not against the idea of "AI as a tool to help." I just think with art, and the way the AI art software works, it's not a helping tool; aside playing around with it for fun, it's a "quick riches" type tool, more like faux leather/Pleather/PU leather.

The important question being, why would you pay for these tools? All I've seen are articles around how well they can create art 'in the style of X' as the exciting bit.