Compared to many tech people here who maintain a website page for 6 figure salaries?

few of us are saving the world. And it turns out saving the world doesn't pay well either (just look at teacher salaries. I guess educating the future doesn't benefit society). Always found it such a weird angle to demean artists while literal billon dollar corporations profit off of exploiting them. So it's not like people don't value certain kinds of art.

As opposed to real jobs like looking at some resumes emailed to you and clicking yes or no on your MacBook

A society without art is a society without joy or self awareness. A society with only AI created art is a facsimile of joy or self awareness. If we're trying to remove the parts of society that challenge and inspire us then we'll be left with cultural mush that doesn't challenge, critique, explore, or even play.

If anything, the AI image-generation movement proves just how highly society values the work of the artist, since we now have tech companies dumping hundreds of millions of dollars into training models to approximate their work.

You'd best hope the day AI comes for your job is a long way away. Karma is, after all, a <redacted>