The reason AI won’t kill all the artists, writers for example, is that we, in general, are driven to create. For a long time music, books, photography, etc. have been commercially driven toward formulas. Artists have experimented for centuries with technology in the macro. There’s plenty of good enough, sugary art that has already been created by formula and AI might proliferate that. But the writers and other artists I know are compelled to create. They are expressing a truth, or themselves in some manner and, for the most part, we want to “know” our artists. AI will have a place. It’s a tool and maybe it can help some create, where they would not have otherwise or want a starting place or improve. But we are not in danger of ceasing to create.