I don't think drastically.
Have yu tried the AI tools?
It is not like you can just describe what is in your mind and it will appear, from what I read in people workflow description it is a more involved work, including training a model (I seen someone trained a model for RPG fantasy characters for example), then creating some starting sketch, generating many images, selecting good candidates, then use in-painting to fix out of place stuff, then use photoshop/krita to fix stuff .
I think it is like with programming, we have higher level languages and libraries and the number of developer increased because we can do a lot more stuff then just starting each time from assembly. So in this case the same artists will just produce more, we will not have to wait 6 months for a visual novel to have an update, we will not need to wait years for some indie game to be done , but yeah it is possible that some patt of the money that goes to art will end up for a short period of time in the pockets of soem art director , but competition would fix that.
It is not like you can just describe what is in your mind and it will appear, from what I read in people workflow description it is a more involved work, including training a model (I seen someone trained a model for RPG fantasy characters for example), then creating some starting sketch, generating many images, selecting good candidates, then use in-painting to fix out of place stuff, then use photoshop/krita to fix stuff .
I think it is like with programming, we have higher level languages and libraries and the number of developer increased because we can do a lot more stuff then just starting each time from assembly. So in this case the same artists will just produce more, we will not have to wait 6 months for a visual novel to have an update, we will not need to wait years for some indie game to be done , but yeah it is possible that some patt of the money that goes to art will end up for a short period of time in the pockets of soem art director , but competition would fix that.