> Art is better when it's not paid. Real artists have day jobs that pay the bills and they create art to express their ideas, not to make money.
Trying to define who "real" artists are is a folly for the ages. It is the dream of many artists that they get paid for their art, and many achieve it. The starving artist is a mythos of pain and suffering, a good story but hardly good for art. Some of the best composers from history were paid, some of the most influential artists were from wealthy families. They were able to focus on their work without fear of money and because of this they could excel in techique and execution, which allowed them to produce some of the highest forms of their art in history.
I'm not even slightly concerned about that.
1. Art is better when it's not paid. Real artists have day jobs that pay the bills and they create art to express their ideas, not to make money.
2. Paid art isn't going away, it will just change. Certain skillsets will be forgotten, like how landscape painting was replaced by photography. But talented artists will leverage AI tools to create works that are greater than anything that came before.