Patience. I know it's hard being a huge AI fanboy among artist and Lib Arts friends who are in a cult of perma doom and hate. But I see artists using AI to make AI art that is fantastic and doesn't waste fossil fuels unlike Christopher Nolan's performative movie, The Odyssey.
Meta Muse, the #1 downloaded iOS app in the world, is only a few weeks old.
Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5 and Astra 6 are only a few days or weeks old.
Get new friends. They are holding you back and they will never trust you again anyway because you "betrayed" humanity by being a huge AI fanboi.