I don't see any of these companies caring about artists, but something like Stable Diffusion is more of a weird accident. Like how IBM managed to create a platf

I don't see any of these companies caring about artists, but something like Stable Diffusion is more of a weird accident. Like how IBM managed to create a platform with that became an open standard, something almost diametrically opposed to their own corporate values. Good quality data and more of it means better output. Disney is almost certainly doing their own thing internally, benefiting from their ability to use both free as well as their own IP and the capital to hire cheap workers to train it directly. It's not that I don't understand why artists might be upset about a company scraping copyrighted art, I just think that the longer term effects of legally kneecapping open source variants while handing over the most powerful versions of it to the existing intellectual property giants are A Bad Thing.