Really lovely @yidneth I usually start my digital art on paper and with pencil pen before going digital anyway, but this year I've been feeling the urge to do more final pieces in the 'real world' (whatever that phrase means anymore lol)
My opinion on the new ai art is that really, it'll become a tool for we artists. There was fear of photography at one point in much the same way, so we shall see. I think ultimately organic life will always win out, so AI is a novelty at present but will most likely settle into normal life in time as a tool we use like computers and mobile phones, but who can say.
I think that as long as people do not claim to have painted "the conventional way" the dame there is a difference between photomanipu lation, or collages. Why not instead of using stocks? But I feel there is a need also of regulation because people are generating brands and likeness and it's all too early and too vertiginous, and it is very unsure how it's going to be regulated in the near future and how it might even affect to the images that have been created so far. We will see.
I also felt the urge to return to paper and I have heard this from other artists as well. So you're not alone