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.
AI art iterates but does not innovate.
The artists that would most likely suffer from it are those who make repetitive work featuring similar looking characters, drawn at similar poses and angles.
So if someone went to town on NottyTiffy's gallery they could probably train it very well to draw cheese cake of her character. Since all they do is same thing over and over, AI is a deathly threat to them.
If you were to go to something like JollyJack however, the AI would have much harder time making heads and tails out of his work.
Personally, I couldn't care less because SD can only do single images. I'll grab my pitchforks when it can do 360 degree camera circling videos of touhou cat walks.
Shameless self-promotion.
What people appreciate about art and human artists are their unique innovations. A program can recreate a scene in the style of Monet, but it's not a Monet. From a commercialization point of view it doesn't matter, but real art will continue to be created by artists and patronized by those who appreciate art.