@Type_Other he's probably "right" for entirely the wrong reasons. Art as a profession is not going away and I really don't think that unassisted AI art is viable once the mystique wears away. It really does make a lot of terrible looking mistakes and looks all the same.

What's probably going to happen is some subset of artists are just going to adapt to AI tooling in whatever adobe suites they're using and they'll just start to work really fast with a higher degree of customization than prompting can manage.

Programmers are already going through this same change. They're just not freaking the fuck out about it because higher neural plasticity I guess.