Until all this frenzied generative furore I believed the starving artist meme-trope and had no idea there were so many making a good living (while still alive) by selling art to the general public. Thought the industry such as it is was more of a money laundering angle for very rich tax evaders and a fortunate, well connected few artists with luck, clout and gallery relationships. And most of what seems fashionable in the trad/modern art world bears very little stylistic or textural resemblance to the sorts of AI image synthesis work that people seem to make popular.