I regard myself as testing AI art rather than adopting it. I find it fascinating to see what it can & cannot do, what instructions it runs with really creatively & which ones it simply doesn't understand. What words has it never heard of, what images which I think are commonplace haven't been given to it? How is it sidetracked by certain words? Why does it sometimes work better than others? What ideas are obvious to a human but not to AI? What must the people who programmed it be like, what view of the world do they have?
The Bluestocking, & the wonderful ladies in it, provide ample opportunities to imagine & try to reproduce scenes both realistic & fantastical. It's fun but also, as I say, a constant test environment. This is not for any commercial purpose, purely for my own entertainment & interest. I hope the resulting images amuse my fellow patrons of the Bluestocking.
Do you have a link to the auction experiment? I find this sort of thing fascinating too - like the orchestra auditions in which more women were chosen when the auditioning musicians were hidden by a screen. And the painting in the Sister Wendy book, which was uncriticised when everyone thought it was by a man, but once it was attributed to a woman people began to find fault with it!
I'm an artist - I've exhibited & sold work in various media, I've won awards & competitions, I've had commissions. I know how hard it is. I'm not certain how much work AI is taking or will take - is there any information on this? I'm only using a free version of one product: how much better are paid-for products? Does anyone have experience of AI animation?