Great point. It does seem like many people are either quick to dismiss AI tools, or call for banning them (which are sort of opposite views), especially in the art community. And I can see why we might feel threatened, art has been a uniquely human activity and until recently it didn't seem like machines would be able to do it.

Recently, there has been significant progress in the Stable Diffusion community using ControlNet, which allows you to shape the subject however you want. Here's a nice demo of what I'm talking about.

Another very useful tool that increases productivity when generating art is outpainting, which allows you to generate plausible continuations of images. Works reasonably well and of course you decide what to generate.