So yes, AI can bypass artists as it will be easy to generate images, arts, ...

I can see how ai-art immediately threatens freelance illustrators and concept artists.

I think ai-art, just like nfts, is a technology that amplifies all the shit I hate about being an artist in this feudal capitalist dystopia where every promising new tool always ends up in the hands of the least imaginative and most exploitative and unscrupulous people.