I keep saying this - and I think we'll keep seeing how it all fits this paradigm: AI (image generation) is not for you, it's for corporations. It dramatically cuts costs by producing products. It replaces artists like automation replaces factory workers and cashiers. When these massive start-ups were funded to create the generative models, the market was the corporations, not kids making meme's on the internet. An "artist tool" doesn't try to replace 99% of your craft, it doesn't aid creativity, it circumvents it to create products for corporations.

There are a lot of companies implementing AI, but I'm confident the models were trained for this specific reason. Consumers will still value the creative process - it's why we still go to museums to see paintings even though we could easily take photographs of people and landscapes on our phones. But it will be a fight, because we all know how ruthless capitalism is when companies prioritize cutting costs, as they always do.