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Image AI is cool as fuck and I refuse to pretend otherwise.

The dolts charging money for "commissions," or even just bragging about something they allegedly created, will be a blip for these few short years. The tech will become another tool anyone can use so long as they have a few free gigabytes... which is already a bit like saying, so long as they have a few free megabytes.

If there's any unavoidable AI tells, when someone sketches an image but has Photoshop finish it for them, we'll come to spot those as readily as we spot gradient fill or the oil-paint filter. They'll be a sign someone did some, but not all, of the hard work. Big whoop.

If there are no tells - if more training lets an overworked graphics card churn out exactly what you describe, as surely as a human artist might - that's gonna be fantastic for expression. And it won't prevent anyone from painting with actual brushes and canvas.

The video versions of this stupid GPU trick will allow any weirdo to turn their original script or sordid fanfiction into an actual movie you can watch with your eyeballs. The characters don't need to look or sound like any specific real actor. It's gonna get wild.

If the rise of LLMs to the mainstream has taught me anything, it's that artists are very whiny bunch who vastly over value themselves.

I don't see a problem with Generative AI, because it's just going to be a great tool for companies to add graphics real fast to their products. I don't see it replacing regular art, since "AI art" is just a natural progression for endless content that you can already scroll on social media when you are bored.

You can't "defeat" AI. It's not an organization or a group to fight against; it's technological progress.

The weavers' uprisings didn't stop the Industrial Revolution either. AI is a tool, and those who learn to handle and adapt to it the fastest will be the ones who fare the best.

Nobody has been able to make a convincing argument in favour of generative AI. Sure, it's a tool for creating art. It abstracts the art making process away so that the barrier to entry is low enough that anyone can use it regardless of skill. A lot of people have used these arguments to argue for these tools, and some artists argue that because it takes no skill it is bad. I think that's beside the point. These models have been trained on data that is, in my opinion, both unethical and unlawful. They have not been able to conclusively demonstrate that the data was acquired and used in line with copyright law. That leads to the second, more powerful argument: they are using the labour of artists without any form of compensation, recognition, permission, or credit.

If, somehow, the tools could come up with their own styles and ideas then it should be perfectly fine to use them. But until that happens (it won't, nobody will see unintended changes in AI as anything other than mistakes because it has no demonstrable intent) use of a generative AI should be seen as plagiarism or copyright infringement.

Unions would probably work, as long as you get some people the company doesn't want to replace in there too

Maybe also federal regulations, although would probably just slow it because models are being made all around the world, including places like Russia and China that the US and EU don't have legal influence over

Also, it might be just me, but it feels like generative AI progress has really slowed, it almost feels like we're approaching the point where we've squeezed the most out of the hardware we have and now we just have to wait for the hardware to get better

generative ai also ruins idents and mabye even diagrams.