As an artist, I think it is a net negative for us. Disregarding the copyright issue, I think it's also consolidating power into large corporations, going to kill learning fundamental skills (rip next generation of artists), and turn the profession into a low skill minimum wage job. Artists that spent years learning and perfecting their skills will be worth nothing and I think it's a pretty depressing future for us. Anways thoughts?
I've seen AI fail miserably at drawing human skeletons. While it's very good at making things that look realistic, or even beautiful, it's still far from achieving complex illustration tasks (e.g. anatomically correct bones, architectural designs, comic strips that make sense, etc.).
AI can't even draw proper Lenin.
It will most likely get there eventually and faster than we think since how fast it went from the experiments to being open to public.