Every time technology enables the masses to do something that was once a specialized skill, we have uproar. #AI is just the latest in humanity's long history of enabling the democratization of skill.

Now artists are crying left and right about how awful AI is and how it's taking all their work, but there's two important points to remember:

1) If the requirements for a visual product don't include heart and soul, then why hire someone to put heart and soul into it? Most commissioned "art" these days just needs to not look like shit. No wonder we're happy to switch to an algorithm that responds instantly to our requests with no snark.

2) Now that the tools have raised the tide, we can all have better baseline/placeholder art, and any of us can use these tools to generate it. That's a good thing! But it doesn't mean we won't ever need artists.
We mass-produce furniture, but that doesn't mean woodworking artisans have vanished. We mass produce food, but local honey is still amazing. We mass produce clothing, yet designer gowns continue to be made.
There will always be those who keep the old ways alive, and others who are willing to pay for that higher quality. So, the question becomes: Are you good enough to be better than the machine, or are you complaining about not getting work making shitty logos for the rest of your life?