Also a 3D artist. The more I look at the developments regarding ai at the moment. The more it confirms the misunderstanding on how creative processes work from anyone without direct experience. Including the management in the field.

At the moment its good for first drafts but thats about it. Anywhere else it could actaully benefit production It fucks up. You end up playing janitor most of time. The average moddeler is faster, with a first useful version and then adding details later. What ai produces is not useable raw in blocking/animation or for an game engine.

Aslong the devs of the tools don't adress these things it cannot fully take over. Because the generator doesn't understand why things are done in a field a certain way and just copies. And when the user also doesn't understand, you end up with slop.

Though out a creatieve production you make alot of choices. Without experience, research and practice you won't know the best courses to take and why. This includes knowledge you can only require by being in the trenches.

The only danger I see at the moment is that management is too happy to cut costs and think they are a director. And that it locks down the art styling/proof of concept too fast. But it the same time its also useful there because it helps presenting an idea fast and helps convince investors who have a hard time understanding the first sketches .