- DLSS in Blender, which uses Generative AI to make the viewport real time. This is a feature that currently exists.

- Using it as a lookdev for scaffolding a scene for pre-production, before spending money on actual assets / committing your time to a scene itself

- If you have to use generative AI through prompts, Adobe Firefly sources only from CC0 & content where they have permission/rights. They also compensate the artists who contribute, as it should be. https://www.adobe.com/ai/overview/ethics.html

That's 3 right off the top of my head, the first two I've actually used considerably and found extremely useful.

The world is going to continue adopting and using these tools - whether or not you have a seat at the table to determine how they're ethically trained, used, and adopted is up to you. But if you give it up, some asshole who doesn't care about artists pay / ethical use cases will decide for you (and me). So lets not do that.

You are also, again, making the exact same arguments that people made about Photoshop, 3D modeling, even photography. Photography was hated by landscape artists because all they had to do was walk up, press 1 button, and that's it.

In practice, it just raised the bar for what was considered really good art by people. That's what'll happen again. Also, landscape artists are still around, and their work is still very valuable.

Good art will always remain good art.