The REAL Fight Over AI Art

One thing to add is that, whilst Dall-E and other AI art generation tools _are_ amazing, if you want to convey a very specific motif or embed more intricate symbolic meaning in your art, it's going to be extremally difficult to get what you want want. I think AI art is more of a threat to generalist graphic designers and modern art producers than it would be to say, Hieronymus Bosch (a 16th century painter who made very intricate biblical scenes). 

For example, if I wanted to make a painting which represented Darcy's characterisation in Pride & Prejudice (first non-controversial thing that popped into my head), I might want stylised depictions of badgers on the bottom to represent his secretive but also family-oriented nature, I might want it to feature a Classical-style tower to symbolise the deeply hierarchical nature of the society in which he lives and its embrace of Enlightenment ideals, I might want a doe upon a hill in the background to represent Elizabeth (maybe in the colour of her eyes), I might want a rabble of supplicants calling up to him from the base of the tower and attempting to climb it, I might want the whole thing to use a pastel colour palette to evoke the period...etc...etc...

You might be able to get AI to generate each aspect of that separately, but the details would probably be slightly off and to then stich it into a stylistically coherent whole would be tricky - you could probably do it with enough time and some photo-editing software, but it would never be a one-prompt-and-you-are-done type job. Even an open ended prompt like 'make a painting symbolically representing the Suez Canal crisis'...probably won't make anything with depth, a best you might get a representation of the Canal and if it understands what the crises was _maybe_ Nasser and a British or French flag. 

It's like using AI to generate literature. It can do a great job at making plot outlines and individual paragraphs, but even a mediocre book involves the author making _thousands_ of novel decisions to with an eye to conveying meaning and the overall themes and emotional beats of the novel.