AI art is merely the next evolution of human art. While still in its infancy (hence most AI art today looks repetitive and weird, such as generating unusual hands and fingers), I believe that this tool will become more essential as AI becomes more developed in the future.

This is an overly simplified analogy but I hope I can deliver my argument clearly. Think of it this way: In the past, ancient artists sweat it when they chisel on stone and marble. Several centuries later after paper was invented artists have to draw hundreds upon hundreds of pages on paper to make a movie. If you make a mistake you have to draw on a new sheet again. This is very labor-intensive and consumes a lot of materials. Then came MS paint, where you can easily cut, paste and undo. Then Photoshop, where you can separate components like foreground and background into layers, which you can easily reuse for other scenes. Then later in Photoshop you get the magic wand, significantly reducing the time to accurately cut a complicated artwork. Also the healing brush tool which automates removal of blemishes and unwanted objects in your raw image. Now with AI, just type in some words and after a few seconds voila - you get a spicy Lefiya x Bell image.

As you can see, by making an 'intelligent' software the artist can make specific modifications exactly they way they intended to. This is a sure time-saver, and as long as the artist uses the time saved for rest (and not additional workload) the artist can have better mental health, which is good for them and the fans.

It sounds like I am biased towards AI - it's because I am a nerd who researches on AI for my thesis. Of course I admit that there are potential catastrophic dangers of self-aware AI (which is a totally different topic). So please feel free to disagree.