tbh, why are we even arguing about this stuff? It's not even gonna change anything, companies will still invest if they profits, they will invest if it fits their agenda, for any reasons at all, they fall when they fall, but if they do not, it speaks about the truth that people do enjoy using AI arts.
AI art is like a fun thing to have, it's like a toy, you could even capitalize it, but there's a fact you must understand:
The idea that AI art cannot replace human artist is stupid, it does not replace human Artist at first, it blends into human Artists's works because they steals, then they infects people's mind and they get better, to the point where people can't figure out if an art is by a human or by an AI unless you use paints to paint it, people who have also been infected by social apps that makes people's attention spans be shortened to 0, they'll just press like for the sake of it, don't care of the details and move on, then situations where your original art gets less attention than a stolen art from an AI happens, then artists drops their works, Ai art takes over, those fat old people will capitalize on that to make cashes, they could even have a fake author name and create an entire manga/comic out of an AI, it will happen if this does not stop.
AI art cannot replace the meaning of human arts, but they can very well suck the life force of human arts out and replace them physically. Look at Ubisoft for example, humans can do stupid shiet like that for Agendas, they view art as a tool for their other stupid ideals, money is one of them. If humans can be like that, with a powerful tool like an AI that steals at an extremely effective rate, anything could happen.