broke: learn to code
woke: learn to use AI
an artist that learns how to utilize AI trained on their own output will increase their skill exponentially in comparison to artists that don't. whether that's a good or a bad thing is entirely up to the individual, there will always be a market for products that are good, whether or not AI is even utilized in the first place. make good work, people are more likely to enjoy it, simple as. what counts as "good work" is also up to the individual, but a good starting point is "give people what they want at an affordable price", a business tactic as old as time.
if you can make a game using store bought assets and AI generation, but the game is good and people enjoy it, there is a greater chance of success than a 60 hour cinematic sad dad/angsty young-adult simulator that costs hundreds of millions to make. in fact, that might just make AAA studios call into question why they painstakingly take the better part of a decade for such works in the first place, if a group of four people can make an overnight sensation on a shoestring budget of "work until we run out of money".
if you are making art for the sake of making art itself, and not for monetary gain, then you shouldn't concern yourself with how the public perceives it at the end of the day. but if you're a rank and file employee putting bread on the table, you don't get that privilege.