You have the problem right, you have the cause wrong.

Automation has been a thing for over a century. People freaked out about the cotton gin, people freaked out about the printing press, people freaked out about typewriters, steel mills, cameras, robotic factory arms, self-checkout kiosks, online shopping, on and on and on.

The point of technology is to take over work. All of the complaints I see are that AI is taking away artist jobs. Maybe the problem isn't that the technology is making art, maybe the problem is that society expects you to produce a minimum GDP or die, and you, as a human, should have the time and freedom to use art as your hobby, something you do for the joy of it, rather than have to use it for survival?

That's what technology is for, it exists to make life easier and/or better. AI taking over the mundanity of paid commission work would, ideally, leave artists with the free time to explore the projects they are actually passionate about. Instead, it fills the economic niche they are trying to survive in, which poses a threat to their survival if they are knocked out of it. The problem is not the technology, the problem is an economic system that creates monetary slavery and kills you if you get knocked out of your niche.