Yeah and I'm sure there are some artists out there making really novel work using AI as a tool, but a lot of amateur artists made the bulk of their money doing things that AI can just do for basically nothing now.
If I want a character commission for my DnD character, I can get something really fucking excellent in an afternoon of playing around with Stable Diffusion, and that's without any real expertise in AI tools or "prompt engineering". Same with portraits of family, pets, friends, etc - and of course the smutty stuff that has always been the real money maker for low level amateur artists
Those types of artists are already really suffering as a result of the tools available now, and it's only going to get worse as these tools get easier and cheaper to use