I have seen a lot of articles and social media pushes to stop AI image creation because it can be trained to the style of a specific artist. It's constantly about how the poor artist won't be able to make mo ey because the AI can do their art for them.
I doubt this. Artists have multiple styles and are more well known for the story within their pictures. If I hired an artist who could repeat that style and do something similar then it's ok?
This makes no sense. Instead, I bet it's a big business trying to protect itself. Disney has a full department that decides on styles for art and presentations. Genie must look this way in all pictures and all artists must repeat it perfectly. Only Disney can sell products with this genie or anything close to it.
If I had AI make Genie doing something and then printed that out, there is very little Disney could do to stop it. This is the music industry vs Napster all over again.
Nah I think this will definitely hurt the premier artists on Artstation and pixiv who have been cashing in on the mobile game boom. Previously you needed to be quite talented to do "realism+" pictures like this (https://twitter.com/ttguweiz/status/880074447826190337), but AI can bash together something fairly high quality like this (https://www.artstation.com/artwork/LezZy5) which just needs to be tweaked before publishing.
The high end artists can conceivably increase their output by using AI to automate a significant portion of the drawing process, but it doesn't require as much skill to edit an AI picture, so less talented artists will now be able to compete. Supply will increase while demand likely remains the same. Some studios/devs might stop contracting for work and just do photoshop in-house.
Maybe AI pictures can't be edited to equal the quality of premium illustrations, but their standard is high enough that most people won't be willing to pay for premium.
Those are difficult for normal artists.