I attribute it more to open source and free plugins into existing Adobe products like Photoshop. People are already using these plugins to do inpainting etc wi

I attribute it more to open source and free plugins into existing Adobe products like Photoshop. People are already using these plugins to do inpainting etc with Stable Diffusion. Adobe is trying to provide official support simply to keep up. To me, the most novel thing is the data source being free of licensing concerns. But that, too, will be eroded as more models appear based on datasets with straightforward licensing for derived works. Image stock collections (and prior deals around them) seem more valuable now than they did before all this.