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I've probably already been blocked by some people, but when I said I liked AI art generators, I did mean as a toy for exploration of ideas, not as something that will result in a lot of underpaid artists losing their jobs because corporations will decide that they can't afford to pay someone with actual artistic talent to at least babysit and edit the output of the stupid AI model. And even if they did decide to do that, they'd probably just undercut their "usual" art rates because "the computer does all the work."
Also I still see a decent sized market for real artists at least in the furry spaces, since people tend to pay generously for that. I know I did pay generously for a number of commissions over the years. I even subscribed to an artist's Patreon for over a year and got several commissions on top of the sub benefits. (This artist also required a sub to even commission them.)