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Are there some people who do this for a hobby?
I was first exposed to it (flintknapping, but you can also make stone tools by grinding stone) by a granduncle when I was very young (5), and did it as a hobby for the last ~1.5 years of my undergraduate degree while I was living with my parents. I don't do it anymore because I live in an apartment and don't have easy access to a space where I could do it. It takes a lot of outside area because you produce a lot of sharp stone flakes and silica dust which you don't want in an area that is not well-ventilated.
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I think it is also worth considering that "artist" is very broad.
Digital artists (and potentially songwriters?) seem very vulnerable, but I expect that my role as a programmer/CS researcher will be 100% automated before I can hire a robot to be even a mediocre photographer. Photorealistic image generation probably reduces the demand for some kinds of photography (stock photography?), but not the need to capture real events like weddings. Painters*, sculptors, and other physical-medium artists seem even less exposed. Even if a robot could paint something nice, I suspect that people buying paintings will prefer that they were made by a human (I would).
It would be interesting to see a breakdown of AI-vulnerability by type of artist, as well as how much society cares about preserving each form of art as something that humans should do.
* Additionally, I wouldn't be surprised if "person who physically paints" is the first kind of artist people think of when they hear the word "artist."