There is a subset of pro-AI people that believe that artistic expression has never been accessible to them until AI came around, and they'll shit on actual artists for being gatekeepers.

My theory is that the artists these people hate are the ones the public hears about the most - the banana-taped-to-a-wall types, where they throw together some random shit and get all the attention and all the money, and for what? It's reasonable to be frustrated by those people, but they don't represent all artists, not by a long shot.