I'm gonna come forward and say that if you really feel threatened and angry by AI art, and you feel like your artistic endeavor is put at stake by it, you are gonna be the first to fall by it.

Even if you look at the best images put out by AI, like the one that won that art contest the other day, like i said at one point at much is wallpaper-grade art and nothing else. Yeah, it looks aesthetically pleasing and it's filled with intrincate detail, but if you look really closely it's meaningless detail, there's no direction, there's no purpose, it's detail just to make an "overall" piece look good.

Examples, the first two images are created by AI, and the other two are created by actual human beings.

Only a human, and a GOOD artist can put meaningful detail in a piece and have it a deeper meaning, not as an "overall" image but as something more intrincate and with more purpose.

Now, I'm gonna say this is not a Anti-AI art rant. I think AI art, used properly, is gonna be the best friend of a good artist. Like an exosqueleton can augment the physical abilities of an human being, AI can augment the creativity powers of a good artist, by giving you a good starting point to create something on your own way. A lot of times you know you have a "nice base idea" for a good art piece, and AI can help you develop this starting idea faster and help you through the rest of the art process.

TL;DR;
If you feel threatened by AI prompt machine, step up your game, do things for passion, not for money.