If you ignore for a moment that generative image AI will most likely utterly decimate the digital arts industry, it's kind of refreshing to see artistic expressions without the usual Tumblr degeneracy. It only took a blanket ban on explicit sexual content to accomplish this.
I suppose it'll crop up again when the usual suspects(Tumblr degenerates) manage to circumvent the ban on sexual content, but by then AI image generators may be good enough to create 'deep fakes/undress simulacra', removing the demand for illustrated pornographic content altogether.
Another factor of influence is that a new and different demographic is tinkering with artistic expression (through AI.)
it certainly drove GPU prices even higher.. damn nvidia got lucky with crypto and then AI.
That's not exactly a matter of luck so much as a reasonably probable outcome of CUDA's development and use. NVidia made a conscious choice to expand their hardware and software support into other areas like machine learning and neural networks, which is closely related to part of how current AI tech operates.