When I was in animation school I saw programs eating other up. Programs would assimilate as compositors and it became evident that one day we'd have it easier and easier to project our inner thoughts. What becomes more important, at this stage, is not the fidelity of finish (veneer) of the creation but the complexity of its intention. If I could give you 100 iterations of a concept, you'd have many types of variety and more than one may work, but what may be inconclusive is how that 1 design (though we have 100 ways of solving x) fits in with the bigger equation. Say you design a walkway and it has plants alongside it. Many plants may look pretty along the path but the one with intention, lands the mark of the artistry the hardest. As you look further into design, you may discover that it is less about novelty and more about accuracy with the application of engineering. When you consider what an "Imagineer" is, you can see that machine learning may assist with production but without the forethought and intention, you have many nice things, but some will land more heartily than others. In Game design, as well as civil engineering, and even to the rueful degree of psychological weaponry, we are all "steering the mind" in directions. Salesman Grant Cordone has book called "Sell or Be Sold" in which he says things are either convincing you, or not in all manners of life, moment by moment. That is the way it is in all things. Art has immense power still, regardless of the panache that machine learning can render. Your independent thought is, itself, a model. If you look at Wassily Kandinsky you will see how the internal models appear in abstract form. There is an overlap between machine learning and Kandinsky. The machine forms models similar to his work. Yet the machine must be fed, also. Economically, schlock is inevitable. People will rapidly produce things and the monetary distribution may shore up to a strange angle, yet people enjoy people. Consider streaming if you care to. Watching a person progressively learn is a catharsis for an audience. If it is simply perfect at any given time, the interest wanes. That is the nature of Wabi Sabi (the joy of imperfection). Use the tools at hand to design critically and with exacting intention like a surgeon with a scalpel. Do it as a hobby if you care to, but still continue to create because that is the basis of human experience. Art is a very broad thing though. You may consider anything art if you expand the thought. To walk "well" is a matter of context. It is all contextual. Some machine learning art may look fantastic but it will lack "The Substance (tm)" and that very substance is perhaps the soul of the artist. Yet in time, the existential nature will catch up to us. All of these ideas I'm presenting to you here is my artform. Seeing that visual material would become easier to produce I routed myself into the baseline origin of "conceptualism" itself. Concept art is not about finish. It is an element of design and purpose behind decision-making. Ultimately, art is soothing. Your body releases cortisol when you paint or color. There is great catharsis in it for you regardless of how many hours a day is spent upon it. Yet expanding the field to include all of life as an artform is very beneficial and may help you to gain monetary value in some strange way yet unseen. It is not possible to see what surprises life has for us, just as you could not have expected for anyone to happen along and provide you this answer. Create something. Professional artists are just hobbyists too if you think about it. Just because money comes to them and they take up the responsibility of deadlines and projects doesn't mean it isn't their passion within. Get involved anywhere and you will glean value from it. Cheers!