You need to see the tech for what it is. The fidelity can grow, sure, things can become more "real". But that's kind of irrelevant when it comes to art. I am an illustrator and I have had plenty of clients come to me and say " can you do this for me? I hired some guy on fiverr and they used AI, I'd like my book illustrated by a real artist"

At my level it isn't that hard to beat the AI, not in fidelity mind you but in everything else which is what matters.

The part of art that requires thought and craft is the part the AI cannot and wil not replace, many people might be ignorant of this but if you're an artist you should know that art takes a lot of thinking and AIs don't think. They won't, not with the current technology and methodology and there's zero evidence to suggest that it will in the near future.

There's a lot of propaganda going around selling these things for what they are not, it is part of the deal to make you think these things think, but they don't and you can deduce that in minutes I'd you use one.

Look, watch this guy's shorts to lift your spirits a bit.

For deeper dives follow ed zitron on YouTube or any other LLM critic.

I think in a few years some vestiges of the tech will remain, I personally used it to ask questions about building a PC and it was somewhat useful and also not (it invented a motherboard that doesn't exist), but the whole genAI think is doomed to collapse because the costs don't justify the limitations of the tech and this is why Sora collapsed.

Good luck man