These AI programs running off of enormous caches of internet data are changing the landscape of art quickly. So naturally, artists are going to be defensive (and I think they're justified, especially if their work is directly stolen/manipulated). Now even high schools and colleges are seeing negative effects of AI programs, because students have been using them to write essays and papers, and the anti-cheat software schools use hasn't been able to keep up. It's kind of wild to think about, and I have to wonder, how long until we get a full movie or cartoon that's been written, animated, and voiced by an AI? I think we'll see it in the next 1-2 years.
Honestly, I don't even find AI art/morphs to be attractive at all. Someone about every single AI art piece I've ever seen is instantly recognizable as "slapped together by a program" and it just doesn't do anything for me. But I can appreciate it as an evolving technology and while I really feel for the artists that are affected by it, I'm also a little excited to see where it goes next.