There's an ongoing fracas in the art community of consent around models consuming and benefiting of others work. I'd argue the bigger issue is that it encourage

There's an ongoing fracas in the art community of consent around models consuming and benefiting of others work. I'd argue the bigger issue is that it encourages a perpetuation of cold and lifeless facsimiles, imitating art. If 5-10 years from now all the art I see in my everyday life ends up being AI vomit I'll be that much closer to necking myself. It's development is endemic of corporate cost-saving. Art costs money to manufacture, now a facsimile of it costs next to nothing to manufacture and at a speed that real artists can't compete with. My only hope at least for what seems to be an inevitable development is that real art will be valued more as a result, assuming we can tell the difference. It's like choosing flooring for a house: linoleum with a print of hard-wood parquetry will look good enough if you don't look too closely, but it's not the same as the real thing and everyone knows it.