In case you don't know, AI art is not an AI pumping out art by itself.
A human prompter has to prompt the AI.
The prompter can perfectly understand 'police brutality'/'shelled hometown', as they are human, just like the artist.
Artists feel threatened, because they invested 90% of their time in drawing skills, which went from unthinkable to automate, to AI surpassing 90% of artists in 8 months.
> they invested 90% of their time in drawing skills, which went from unthinkable to automate,
Except that the AI doesn't automate drawing, it automates the creation of an image of a drawing.
I have a friend who is an amateur water colour painter. I have no doubt that an AI/ML application can produce pictures that look very much like pictures of his pictures. But at the moment at least it is utterly unable to create the actual artwork.
Artists feel threatened, because they invested 90% of their time in drawing skills, which went from unthinkable to automate, to AI surpassing 90% of artists in 8 months.