[swordsmith]

So with these generative models running rampant, what's to even motivate aspiring artists to develop and hone their craft, if their years of work can be copied so easily?

Maybe it doesn't practically matter, because some art style generative model can be developed and feed into the diffusion model so it can generate art of new styles.

[wilsonnb3]

> So with these generative models running rampant, what's to even motivate aspiring artists to develop and hone their craft, if their years of work can be copied so easily?

…because they like to make art?

The idea of making a living as an artist has only been possible for a very small fraction of human history, yet we have always had art.

We are in the process of reverting to the norm. The world will never again be like it was in the post industrialization and pre information era.