The biggest losers in all of this have to be online artists, especially freelance. I paid decent money a few years ago to get a semi-realistic anime portrait that is clearly inferior to what I can mock up Anything v4.5 in under 5 minutes. The AI is less repetitious and more vivid than the human illustrator's portfolio, actually.

High-level concept artists have been dining off mobile game art for years now - I don't know any of them personally, but a look at Artstation should tell you as much - and AI can effectively ape their style. Where does this leave them? They're going to design more original character props and features than the AI, but we're talking mobile games here. The studios literally don't care about originality because their customer base might as well be AI themselves.

Maybe a silver lining is that artists will stop acting like Marie Antoinette when you try to commission them. I get that some of their customers are fire-breathing retards but online artists have to be one of the most entitled and passive aggressive groups on the planet.

The biggest losers in all of this have to be online artists, especially freelance. I paid decent money a few years ago to get a semi-realistic anime portrait that is clearly inferior to what I can mock up Anything v4.5 in under 5 minutes. The AI is less repetitious and more vivid than the human illustrator's portfolio, actually.

High-level concept artists have been dining off mobile game art for years now - I don't know any of them personally, but a look at Artstation should tell you as much - and AI can effectively ape their style. Where does this leave them? They're going to design more original character props and features than the AI, but we're talking mobile games here. The studios literally don't care about originality because their customer base might as well be AI themselves.

Maybe a silver lining is that artists will stop acting like Marie Antoinette when you try to commission them.