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NFTs notwithstanding, people paying big money for art aren't usually just "buying" .JPG files. There's often some physical component, sometimes quite large, heavy and difficult to reproduce. Oil paintings, castings, mixed-media pieces larger than a car, etc.

These sorts of things are less likely to be subject to someone typing a command into an AI generator program. AI stuff will have impacts on grunt work, and will be used to come up with crazy ideas when artists are stuck, and there will be some people who will make a lot of money with a line of text and some software, but overall, the art world values uniqueness, the human touch or at least the human conceit that goes into "computer art" or "machine art".

Art is only worth what people (real live humans) will pay for it. The NFT market has finally started to crater as people have realized there's nothing there there.