[omegaworks]

>That said, I'd still make the same point that people who value art and the artist will buy from and support the artist.

The chances anyone will come across the artist when their marketplace is flooded with increasingly plausible simulacra become more and more slim as time goes on.

AI is choking off any hope for artists supported by patronage, simply by virtue of discoverability being lost and trust being eroded.

>But now we're on a larger scale.

It's simply a bad problem, made worse!