>>16042955As someone who is a professional digital/traditional artist
(I make around $75k a year)
First of all, all jobs are going to be taken by ai/robots in the far? future, including surgeons, lawyers, sex work. Anything a human can do robots/AI can do it better. It just happens to be that any job that doesn't require a physical presence will be replaced first.
These current generation art AIs work off pre-existing databases and structures, all it is doing is killing all the artists who aren't too skilled barely making it, high tier skilled artists see no difference. Unsure of the future when they start doing entire lets say anime scenes with dynamic poses and angles and creating true characters from scratch. So you still have room to create art as a talented artist and your own defining style.
I'd personally categorize this into concept art to assist already high skilled artists at forwarding better creations. 3D rigging has already removed the need to learn how to draw anatomy to an extent.
>TL;DR if you're highly skilled at art and can already make a solid income with it, it doesn't affect you at all, and probably won't in the near future either. I can still create styles, characters and settings current generation AI will never be able to as they work off set databases. It improves my work capacity. 