irl I see AI gen in stores as posters, book covers, parent's & kids magazines, health care facilities, event marketing, assets & character art in gamedev, scientific outreach & publications :/ Digitaly, the ads for sure but also guys who pretend to be eg. pencil artists, or human art contest winners
They usually are "enter a lottery where you give your art rights to us so we can monetize it" so I agree. But if one chooses/has a reason to participate, the very least these contests should do is provide a fair competition.