Oh the Ai art generator has no "soul" and it's soy and reddit? This precious art form (illustrating things that other people pay you to, a medium dominated almost entirely by furries, porn, and furry porn) is being destroyed by the evil AI? I'm sorry that the democratization of art creation is so upsetting to you. I've brought dozens of ideas to life by typing words into a prompt and I didn't have to pay someone $300 to do so.
you couldn't be more wrong
I think he's just talking about deviant art, which will certainly crater now that people like OP can fap to their own half-assed AI furry porn rather than slap-dash, starving artist commissions.
people who actually get commissions usually aren't Like This (minus the bloc of straight dude humansonas) - there's already plenty of free slop out there for basically every conceivable demand if you don't care about individual artists' styles. usually, around any financially successful furry artist, theres a community who care more about that specific artist's work continuing to be produced more than they care about their specific desires being replicated, see any number of adoptables that go for £300+, or fundraising drives that make multiple thousands