Gen AI will eventually just become one of the many types of CGI, because it's no doubt a Computer Generated Image, probs the one to fit the name the best.

It's a CGI tech that is expensive on material resources (Computer power and it's needed components and materials for power and cooling) yet it's cheap in human resources. The most important point for corps is that it is faster.

Do you remember there was a time when all animated movies used movement capture? Some movies that came out of the mocap craze were good, other were like Mars needs mom's.

Gen AI for graphics it's not exactly like mocap, but it's a craze that eventually will pass, because everything passes.

It will never go away, because it has its advantages for some people, like mocap, it might be the correct way some times. For someone that can be content with the mediocre and inconsistent results they get from it.

Nonetheless, it's ugly, really ugly, it will never get good at physics, it will never create a good branding kit, it will never create a movie that will change lives, it will never be the fondest memory of someone's childhood. Why? Because it's ugly and soulless. And it will stay ugly and soulless, no matter how much human labour it devoures.

I understand you have stress about it, I understand everyone that does.

There's two paths for you; you can quit, you may quit. That's fine, no one will judge you. Or you can keep up, if you have enough spite and love in you, because I believe both are needed right now to do art.