I'm not a known artist. I like to paint and draw, but except a few paintings I did as presents, everything ends in my drawer. So, A.I. doesn't threaten my livelihood. And until they make 3D printers that can emulate the brush strokes or oil pastels on canvas, nobody can accuse me of painting with A.I. Still, I often use A.I. to help me with my painting.
Whenever possible, I use my photographs as a model for a painting. However, I often want to paint something I don't have a picture of. In those cases, I generate one using A.I. For example, right now I'm doing a series of Halloween paintings. A prompt of the likes of "Halloween pumpkin with flaming eyes, sitting of the ground, with twisted plants in Tim Burton style, and a red full moon illuminating the scene from top right" gives me the midel for my painting in minutes, rather than spending hours in Inkscape or Gimp.