What is different in this case is that large companies are very likely looking to replace artists with ai, which is a huge potential impact.
Piracy never had such risks
I think this will only happen if you could selectively replace parts within an image selectively and reliably. There are still major problems even in Photoshops genaI application. For example, it is not possible select the head of a person on a picture and then type "smile" to make the face smile. We might get there eventually.