It's important to keep in mind that AI doesn't take over entire workforces because it is
better, or does jobs humans can't, but because it is
cheaper. I've played with several AI art and text models and none of them I would consider to be better than a human. However, they are good enough - and more importantly, legally ownable[0] capital goods - such that corporations would rather have an AI serve you to make their own scale problems go away.
The hyperbole about being forced to work for free isn't entirely wrong, because tech companies love tricking people into doing free labor for them. They also aren't arguing for AI being a copyright-free zone. They're arguing for reallocation of ownership from authors to themselves, in the same way that record labels and publishers already did in decades prior.
[0] At least until the Luddite Solidarity Union Robot Uprising of 2063