I am a graphic artist and Midjourney increased A LOT my production. More artworks to sell, more sales. I used AIs to improve and increase the number of my artworks for sale from day one basically (at first I was using Disco Diffusion, then my MJ request for beta was accepted more or less one year ago). I never cried about the AI stealing or destroying my work and business, but instead I used it from the first minute as a tool, like Photoshop or any other tool a digital artist can use.