>Aside from the debates about "artistic merit" and the ethics of using AI trained on existing artists' work, one of the key things is that this new technology a

>Aside from the debates about "artistic merit" and the ethics of using AI trained on existing artists' work, one of the key things is that this new technology allows anyone to flood a place with images. Just subbing to the StableDiffusion sub has added a ton of art to my feed in Apollo. I agree the concern isn't that it's art, but that it's being produced so fast. I've seen dozens of showcase/portfolio worthy pieces generated in the past week. That manually created would probably take 40-160 hours (I'm not an artist so hence the huge range). It's pretty comparable to handcrafting a letter vs. a spambot in terms of the volume jump.