This can also be trivially circumvented: Step 1. Hire some outsourced artist in the rest of the world, where people don't care about AI art regulation. Step 2

This can also be trivially circumvented: Step 1. Hire some outsourced artist in the rest of the world, where people don't care about AI art regulation. Step 2. Watch as those outsourced artists outproduce the domestic artists, since they have the twin advantage of lower costs AND better quality due to being able to use insanely powerful AIs. Step 3. Watch as the domestic art industry gets wiped out, just like manufacturing did. Politicians can understand this 1.2.3, therefore they'll never ban art AI.