I even seen promising artists with interesting artstyles giving up on their craft, to jump onto "prompting", because some techbro on twitter bullied them for doing art "the old way".
This was certainly a problem in the NFT days. "Mint your art as an NFT, make a fortune! What, someone stole your art and minted an NFT of your art and now they're making money off it? You should have bought in sooner!" Techbros' whole raison d'etre is to bully people into giving them money with FOMO. It's a disgusting tactic.
It's a shame because the counterpoint is that generative AI has the potential to be actually useful unlike NFT's. Consider the argument made by Joel Haver at the end of this video. Hand rotoscoping is a painstaking process, but a Photoshop plugin that does it automatically? It allows him to make fun videos, good content, art. And it's definitely a style that he's embraced and made his own. But because generative AI is driven by techbros, style and substance alike go out the window in the name of churning through gristle, training an AI on other people's art so they can sell the AI for profit.