early 1990s...
Imagine someone is coming to a painting studio and saying:
Hey, I got this amazing 600dpi inkjet printer at Circuit City and I can print fantastic "artwork" within minutes, and you sit here sweating for days / weeks, producing single picture. Losers! Get with the flow!

AI is breakthrough technology, but so as many other revolutionary technologies that co-existed with Arts throughout the centuries. Yes, it is a "present" disruption and without a doubt will cause pain to whole lot of people who are making a living from certain creative work, but in a long run, humans are resilient. Those who want to create will continue to create. They created in times of famine, censorship and war... Just because that is who they are. An interesting fact: Most musicians that I ever knew/know made money on live performances, not records or streaming. This includes artists across the spectrum from opera to electronic music. smile

With the same passion we can talk about chem fertilizers and GMO's vs traditional farming using good old manure.