This is a very narrow viewpoint. This is 2022. You can be sure that DALL-E and Stable Diffusion and subsequent iterations will be continuously improving at a faster pace (especially those that become more open), and 5 years, 10 years from now, you will be able to make very convincing images that will absolutely compete with the best artists out there.
It will not "steal your job" right now, but that's besides the point. With image generators you can produce 100's of images for "free", and you can just spend your time selecting the best in the lot. For most needs out there, it's enough.
Yup, this article is some heavy, heavy copium. It feels like digital job automation is only a matter of time at this point.
However, I for one am not looking forward to the piles of copilot spaghetti vomit we're going to have to clean up in five years... because copilot will be abused to hell just like Access and Excel were in the 90s-00s.
Even if it never reached such peaks, it'll still steal the majority of lower-level jobs in every industry it touches, creating a giant expertise gap between new graduates and the level required to improve upon AI generators. That's clear just from current tools working now.
It will not "steal your job" right now, but that's besides the point. With image generators you can produce 100's of images for "free", and you can just spend your time selecting the best in the lot. For most needs out there, it's enough.