I don’t think you have any object-level disagreement with most people who say AI is “about to” shake things up. You just view “the tech is already such that this could theoretically be happening today” as sufficient justification to say things are being shaken up in the present tense, while others are using that same justification for the words “about to”, and are presumably waiting for real-world effects (significant shifts in commission art pricing, artists losing their jobs, any major project shifting their art budget to use this tech, etc.) before we say the shake up is actually happening.
I don’t think you have any object-level disagreement with most people who say AI is “about to” shake things up. You just view “the tech is already such that this could theoretically be happening today” as sufficient justification to say things are being shaken up in the present tense, while others are using that same justification for the words “about to”, and are presumably waiting for real-world effects (significant shifts in commission art pricing, artists losing their jobs, any major project shifting their art budget to use this tech, etc.) before we say the shake up is actually happening.