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.
Yeah. And at the same time, there will always be a niche market for oldschool, man-made art. This stuff happened a bunch of time before - for example, when quartz watches appeared in the 1980s and then got ubiquitous in the 90s, it almost looked like mechanical watches would just disappear, but the market still exists today, because even though a 20 dollar quartz Casio or Timex will keep time just as well as a $10k Rolex (and way better than a $200 Seiko 5), people still want the Rawlecks, or Omega, or Patek Philippe. Or even the Seiko. It's just cool.
The niche AI art will displace is the "furry porn commissions" one, because why pay someone a thousand bucks for drawing your extremely specific deranged fetish when you can just have a computer generate a fresh image 10 times a day? And That's A Good Thing.