Just where is an inexperienced new grad making $170k out of the gate? I find this difficult to believe. Are you normalizing for cost of living? I suspect, most Boeing employees aren't based in the Valley.
I think the analogy holds. Printing presses can't produce hand-drawn calligraphy just like Midjourney can't produce art outside some boundary on it's training set. Both are limited in capability compared to humans, both have inhuman capabilities. Both required humans to initially produce value. Neither requires humans to continue to produce value.