Now for our team, the AI stuff is just the next logical step. Obviously, I have some ambivalence on the issue since now, “some guy” can just crank out aliens putting all our years of hard-earned artistic experience at risk. But it is what it is.
Brad...to be fair that's always been the issue over generations of graphic art. Once upon a time portraits were painted and the documenting of the human image was rare and special ...then along came cameras...
Illumination replaced by type-setting ..etc.
'simple' computer art [PS...PSP] is a different/easier animal than actually doing it in RL.
As things evolve you just have to evolve first/better to still stand out in the crowd...