This is always the assumption of a new technology, and relies on people that assume the absolute minimum of the person's role. It seems you might have the belie

This is always the assumption of a new technology, and relies on people that assume the absolute minimum of the person's role. It seems you might have the belief that a creative's role is to sit and generate MS Office style clipart. Instead let's take a short journey into the role of an illustrator with an example job. An author hires an illustrator to produce a series of illustrations for their new children's story. The illustrator reads the story and discuss ideas with the author, they will talk through and present styles (or make a new one) that match the feel of the story, and match the progression of the story-arc. They'll craft mood boards and multiple story boards to best capture the story, then work through revisions with the author and finally proceed to artwork. Their skills extend beyond drawing, their skills are rather in the knowledge in how to craft and present in a visually engaging way, the picture is the end point - but everything else is 80-90% of the job. I know watercolour artists whose stunning visuals take less than 10 minutes to paint, their whole job is about the steps that came to that point. However, let's get back to the illustrator - the artwork will then be tailored to suit the medium, for a book this may mean altering the imagery away from the spine area or where thumb placement typically is - for digital this could involve developing layered sub-elements to support animation or parallax, or ensuring that screen size isn't going to ruin the experience and so on, at this point we've now engaged other kinds of creatives to suit the specific technicalities of the output. I won't go on, but the process does continue from here, it's a highly tailored process and every job is clearly different. AI text to image doesn't do any of this. It currently can't even do consistent images (hopefully that will change.) Now we have people on the internet who have never worked in a creative field and not really experimented with StableDiffusion to see its obvious limitations all while telling the world that these people will be unemployable and that their craft will be worthless. I think my simple example above helps outline that the drawing of a picture is just one part of the role. Here I've used an illustrator as an example, but it could have just as easily been a branding designer with a logo, a character designer, a story-teller, a prototyper and so on and so forth. All of these people ultimately produce a picture, but the "job" is everything that leads up to that point. AI will merely be a new tool for these people, and they'll be excited to receive it.