maybe, just let me add one more thing...
just to let you understand better...
try imagine artists who put their whole life into their art, learning, failing, standing up again and again, doing their best of what they can do, just for the sole purpose of creating something they like (im not talking about commission work here, soley about the artists own ideas)
you do this cuz you have fun and then... there comes a software, which can produce a piece of imaginery which 8at first glance) looks WAYYYY better than everything you could ever create, your whole life wouldnt fit to learn what this software can do within seconds... it either breaks you, or it will move you todo better, in any case it still downgrades your work in the eyes of "normal" people, people who only watch and have no idea of an artists struggle... all they see is the output done in seconds, but without any of the complicated actions and reactions they have to accept with artists...
sure, many artists lose commissioners, but what is more devastating is, that many of them also lose faith in themselves...
ai is not really a thread to artists income, seriously... but it is a thread to artists willpower and imagination...
i have met many artists who have simply quit because of ai, some other just laught at it and do what they allways did - but the truth is - none of that is of interrest of the viewer... for them all counts are the images...
so art becomes "soulless" - it really is depressing...