The issue isn’t similar to using other people’s data for profit. It’s easy to not feel that’s the case because “it’s the AI that does that, not me.”

There’s a lot of concerns around it. Mine is that it stagnates and we have longer periods of style with minimal variety because of artist stagnation due to lack of financial backing. Though, this is for all gen AI as it depends on humans for progression, else it stagnates. People are already getting AI art.fatigue because it feels like that old 2000–2015 Adobe Illustratorgradient vector art—it would be brming with that shit. It depends on more artists progressing our art to be able to do the same. But it won’t do that as fast if art.culture.is slowed due to lack of support.