AI will replace artists... If we allow it. Any new technology is initially being pushed out completely irrespective of ethics, safety and law, for law never cataches up. It is only through outrage, public education, combatting and slowing it down do we allow the law to catch up, and establish a balance. Frontiers where AI is a complete BS and to be illegal, frontiers where it should be legally limited and frontiers where it is a welcome relief.
It is up to us and continuous controversy we create over AI vs Artists that AI cannot be carelessly plopped into the system in our faces. And we can see the results of that as law across the world is slowly addressing this new tech.