No amount of people doing that will ever destroy art or music, the only thing that can is reducing artists living conditions enough to where they can't make art.

commercial incentives already ruined art if you're worried about this ruining art.

Isn't that literally the last line, but for art? The average person gave very little fucks about "art" before AI, and most art happened for purely base reasons, like marketing or porn. Fancy shmancy art will continue to exist.

It will (and already has) HURT them, certainly. But that's still a far cry from "destroy".

Art is a fundamental human drive. In fact, not even human - neanderthals also made art. The fact that we can make cool looking pictures really easily with a computer will no more destroy art than photography did.

This brought to mind a 2012 interview with Eric Wolpaw, writer of Valve games and Psychonauts:

Interviewer: "People take for granted that writing is easy. It’s not."

Erik Wolpaw: "Yeah. Everybody can write. I mean, you’re a writer. But everybody thinks that they can, because everybody can to a certain extent."

I think of writing as a form of art, but it's not the first thing that comes to mind when I hear the word.