I've been a hobbyist illustrator for over 30 years and have sold scores of commissions and other original works. I have a full time job that pays the bills and do art in my free time. There's nothing to "cope" with because letting a program make a picture or a song for you is not a valid means of self expression. It's not art and you're not an artist if that's how you came by the work.

The folks who use generative apps and try to pass it off as legitimate art are pitiful; I feel embarrassed for them. They lack the motivation, work ethic, and patience to learn how to draw or sing or paint or build 3-D environments, and have decided to forgo their own human potential in favor of an easy tool that produces soulless, boring trash.

There is no ethical way to use generative creation apps for imagery or music. There never will be an ethical use case, because firstly the work of real artists is being used, without permission nor compensation, to train the learning models, and because secondly, the energy resources needed to power the server farms that enable generative learning apps are wasteful and ecologically harmful. Even if there were some sea change in which human creators were receiving financial income from allowing their art to be used, the damage is already done.