AI-art is extremely iffy for me. If I am presented an option to generate a picture with a NovelAI for example and with perfect prompts that will create me the picture I'm looking for, or given money to purchase an original artpiece from an artist who draws it themselves I will always pick the artist. I much rather support someone who is most likely going to suffer from this AI-revolution the most and get an original one-of-a-kind drawing made for me in the process even if that means that I will have to wait it for a few weeks.
I've been dating a talented artist for almost a 10-years now, and have witnessed in front-row seat how much anxiety and concern about their future and the worth of their craft this sudden development with AI has brought into their life, and now after seeing
game-studios firing their whole art-teams in favor of AI my distaste towards the whole AI-generated art grows stronger day-by-day.
I do however get the convenience in generating a perfect ref for a character in a roleplay quickly, and not wanting to pay a lot of money for a ref when you're not even sure if the RP is going to last long, so in those cases I don't mind if someone opts to use them. I personally hunt my refs online, and if I happen to find a perfect AI-generated picture someone else has made I might use it as a last-resort ref if I can't find anything better than that. However I will never generate AI-art myself. That's where I draw my personal line.