AI art is inevitable.

Visual artists are going to have to adapt in order to survive.

AI art is inevitable.

Just like Thanos, a collapse of the housing market again, and global warming.

Maybe, that was a bit dramatic but…

AI art is what p2p sharing was the musicians and eventually filmmakers 20 years ago.
It was inevitable. First we had CD's and fully digitized music, then the internet. So, it was only inevitable that people would start freely sharing music ripped from CDs.
Sites like Spotify and Tidal provide some degree of protection to musicians but, frankly, if its on Tidal or Spotify, more than likely you can find it for free on a bunch of places.

The same with films, the day after any movie’s release, you can find it on a number of overseas-based websites for free streaming online. And, like ripped CD’s versus copied cassettes, the quality of bootlegged movies now rivals the quality of a store purchased DVD.
In the end, people that bootlegged music probably weren't going to ever buy it legally anyway. They would have copied someone else's CD or bought a bootleg at the barbershop, corner store, or their "dey cuzzin with the hookup" and kept it moving.

The same for people who bootleg movies. They never going to pay $12.00 for a ticket when Pookie at the barbershop down the block can sell them the DVD for $5.00.

AI art was inevitable too.

First we had programs like Illustrator, Corel Draw, and other drawing programs. Once you had programs that mimicked human thinking, it was a wrap.
But, just like with bootleg music, the people and institutions who are going to use AI art probably wouldn't have purchased physical art in the first place.

They would have just taken an image from somewhere, photoshopped some text over it, and used it.

AI is just like streaming in that it simply made it easier for people to do what they were gonna do anyway.
How did artists survive streaming? Live performance. You can steam Beyonce's latest music for free but you gonna pay big to see her perform life.

How will visual artists survive AI art?

That’s the question.