> I feel like the process of using AI-generated art and augmenting it with my own projects is more productive than creating my own art from scratch. There are

> I feel like the process of using AI-generated art and augmenting it with my own projects is more productive than creating my own art from scratch. There are two roads: doing what you love and doing something of value (where value is defined as what other people are willing to pay for). Hopefully, those can converge to a degree, but they don't have to. I love making art, but that doesn't pay for me, so I do other things to earn money --- that supports the art. Being able to do more cheaper is creating more value. Given your skills in art and computers, you could look at a career in UX. It both pays and can be art. It is something of value that can then support your other more personally fulfilling endeavors. Or simply get good at being a digital artist that takes the best AI generated art, fixes it, and gets it out the door :-)