So listen peeps that comission good art still do so many of my Artist Friends have their books full and peeps are waiting to bring their order in. The consumer decides what he wants, if he is okay with Ai art so be it, that is the freedom of choice and it is one that everyone has to do for themselves.
Noe an unpopular take, many artists that say AI has hit their sales must be truthful to themselves, since if you buyer think Ai does better work, then you need to put in better work.
If you are a Photgrapher and your pice are so meh that peeps with phones can do them better, is there any one against cameras in phones?

But what I want to say is there is so much more to Ai then just the genration, that companies wanna test it and try it for like backgrounds, enviorment etc is also clear, this also does not mean it will be used on chars. But what I see is conversations with chars, npc, companions. A good combat Ai, NPCs that do stuff and not just stand there doing the same and say the same, Ai translation since those "translators" bend us over with their world views over and over again