I used to make digital fantasy art, precisely in the style most copied by AI. Sure it could be a tool but also has rendered something I did manually for days on end being worthless. Now people start to make music even stealing other voices and likeness  without permission cos there is no regulation. Can it be a tool? Yes, is is "abused" in detriment of artists (training with out art and styles even to our names) also true. And sad to sound bitter, but I was already a struggling artist trying to make ends meet. To pretend  it has not hurt us so prople can enjoy it is being oblivious. Not judging people that use, might even myself, that does not  change it us rendeting us fantasy artists jobless... Son videographers and musicians too, dunno then. Do i believe I make something special. By all means but I cannot compete with a machine that can copy my work and render it  (fairly well) in ten seconds. Progress never goes back, people were rarely caring about us anyway... But I believe that affirmation is untrue fir those mist directly affected by the first wave.  

 I think about this a lot! 
A while ago I heard a coder talking AI increasing his productivity, but that the only reason he could make good use of it was that he already knew his field so well. 
It's an appealing idea, but I don't know how it would work in the arts. 

 It has taken a big toll on us. But more in the way people has desensitized to art and what efforts takes to create it humanly.  If you were given cakes and bread  everyday free would you go to the nakery? But we must accept it rather than mourning. We shall have to adapt.  But what is true is that even if we accept progress is progress and it is a tool there should be some ethical boundaries. Some people even steal singer voives to make fake covers, or artists likeness to make nsfw work. Or midels to mimic the style if one particular illustrator. We do know it us wrong, le us not pretend there are no issues.  And most of them  of misuse 

 There are definitely issues. My guess is that most folks who use AI for design would agree with that but have already made their peace with this (now intevitable) shift. 

Regarding ethical boundaries: any effective regulation in this regard will create some very scary powers. 

So I've resigned myself - as a musician - to focusing on what I can offer that's not AI (live performance, obviously, but also teaching because there's so much joy in making music).  

 As you say the shift is inevitable 
But there are image rights  out if AI
And I am sure there will be voice rights. I do not give permission to my image or my sound to ve used. And as author I may have my right.
People are sending to spotify songs sung by the voice of famous people and marketing their image without permission. So I sm afraid some protection in needed or at least exoand what is the concept if image rights. Because people do not know the current (non ail intellectual property rights. 
Some models are made feeding the images if a particular artist and they mimic tto perfection and recognizable ways. 
I draw and I make music and I sm not saying I eould never use it because ket us face it we would be in disadvantage pretty soon, precisely artists may have thevway to use it to create rather than regurgitating. 
Not whining it is what it is, rarely progress go back as scary as it seems.