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AI imagery is here to stay, it's super convenient for people and companies getting good results fast and cheap. People with vivid imagination but lacking the discipline required to learn to draw can now easily visualize their ideas.
Those more determined can also refine their slop for more specific results and also fix the more obvious errors.

Some artists mald because their income is being threatened but other jobs have been affected by automation in the past so who cares.
There's legitimate reasons to say it's been causing grief though. Some websites artists themselves use have been absolutely flooded by slop to the point they have to wade through pages and pages of slop to find one good reference or idea and it pisses people off. Also, their own works get lost in the spam.
At least older books are safe.