Dunno, I feel sad about artists a bit. I hope they won't stop creating. I am sick of these flashy AI fakes.
The people who are motivated to create art made art before they were being paid to do so. I don't think they're going to stop. They might release fewer pieces publicly out of style-copying fears. Or if they get paid less they might have less time to spend creating art. Personally I think generative models enable more people to make art and may even let professional artists create more art.
And the people most likely to use AI to copy artists probably wouldn't have hired the artists in the first place. Some people are losing on opportunities, but I think. in most cases, those opportunities didn't exist to begin with.