I feel the same. For artists, it already does make them much more productive, but at the same time it is killing their job. Because good artists want to create something meaningful, and they need to go through the process of actually creating it. That's why they love their job, that's why they got into it.

AI can now generate images that are not as good, but the average people won't really realize. Therefore it not only makes artists more productive (as in: "make more profit faster, even with lower quality"), but it makes the best artists less relevant because "anyone" can replace them and make worse content that's more profitable.

Same with code Copilots. To me it's killing the job. I take care into crafting good code, and I believe I am better than average at it. but the Copilots enables worse developers to be more productive than me (not that their code is more maintainable, but they can produce so much that they help making more money). But I don't want to do their job (which is basically debugging what the Copilot wrote).

I believe that AI is lowering the quality of everything it does well, but people love it because it's increasing the profit. What a great time to be alive.