Given that all serious artists seem to be extremely anti-AI, I strongly suspect that you may be wrong.
I've been trying Fable for coding in the past week and while it's incrementally better than Opus sometimes, what it's churning out is still far from art - and I do think it's possible for code to be art.
If you're defining "serious artists" as some approximation of "people who have made money with their art" then it's clear that there's a conflict of interest here.
Now I happen to be in the camp that believes that AI on its own isn't really capable of producing art (but like a human creating a collage, there can be art created by humans using AI... there is artistic merit in the arrangement).
I still despise that AI is going to be used to strip creators of their labour value, but that's more related to my objection to capitalism than it is to AI.
I'm simply defining serious artists as people who are serious about their art, whether they're award winning filmmakers or amateur photographers. Roughly nobody out of all those people wants to use AI.
(If you want to define it as professional artists instead, then I don't even see much of a conflict of interest. Professional programmers tend to be cautiously optimistic about the new tool and are finding uses for it, why wouldn't professional artists? But, they largely do not see it that way.)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/martin-scorsese-supports-...
This is simply cherry-picking (though of course the parent asked for it, by using the word "all" in their original comment - but that doesn't absolve you of resorting to a "gotcha").
If you consider microdramas as art (who knows what art means to people these days) then the Chinese duanju already has not just full shows using AI but also already have big hits using it.
Yes the people making these are frustrated by how much stress it puts on them (directors managing multiple shows at a time daily must be stressful af) but nobody (neither artists nor audience) are complaining about AI usage. As always they don't hate AI, they hate capitalism.