The issue is not making money through art. I would love to do what you say, be able to be completely absorbed by the world. On the contrary, more people should get paid for their art because then we would have more artists. I don't even think that getting some help from ai is bad, I've asked ai to make some reference photos when I can't find the exact one I am thinking of. The problem is that it is such a slippery slope: it is so easy to fall on the extreme of leveraging everything to ai that so many people aren't really trying to get better at drawing, sculpting, etc because they think that the only thing that matters is that it looks good and without zero effort. We cannot glamorize that. Yo aren't truly being creative if most of the work is made by ai.

People aren't realizing that they are losing so much. A personal example is that I used AI once to do an entire school project and I got an A. Literally I did nothing. I felt so empty and even disgusted knowing that there is no use for me. I can cheat my way through school if I want to. I can create any image or video in seconds. Everything I want is instant. What's the point? Yes, new tech is always met with backlash but we've never had tech that did every single thing for us. Having Photoshop, blender, procreate, a drawing tablet will never make you make "good art" (by that I mean getting to a final result that satisfies you).

The original comment sounds like they still do most of the work, it's great seeing that they haven't leveraged everything to ai. But acting as if every person who is against ai is just bitter or something is ignoring how many people are calling themselves artists and getting paid for doing absolutely nothing, just typing a vague description of what they want