In my opinion we have had AI in one form for a long time. The search engines. And so on. And all the AI's knowledge comes from the search engines. Its crawling the internet! In my opinion they could try and replace google with AI, make search engines illegal! Only allowed to query the almighty AI. But thats maybe only going to happen in a fictional universe :P

AI generated art and music is not going to replace anything imo. If anything it will lift the lowest budget of things, by providing them "original" art and music. Which probably wouldnt have been available to them otherwise. But the big budget stuff will still use artists. They will still pay for the real deal so to speak. So imo AI has the potential to lift projects with small budgets, it doesent threaten projects with big budgets and the artists and so on that rely on that. I dont know if that makes sense.

But also all the cheaply and instantly available AI generated art is going to spawn a counter culture, perhaps. Weppages, apps and tools that are extremely simple and text based only. But lets see.