SD base models can't really be used to imitate style of other artists reliably, because the datasets that they were trained on are a huge mess. Caption accuracy

SD base models can't really be used to imitate style of other artists reliably, because the datasets that they were trained on are a huge mess. Caption accuracy is all over the place. For example - Joan Cornella's work and Cyanide & Happiness comics are in LAION5B, but if you prompt SD to make art in their style you'll get something completely different. Try prompting for a "minigun" - you will also get something weird. In order to copy style from other artists reliably - you have to make a LoRA yourself. That involves a lot of manual work and it can't really be automated if you want good results. Artists can opt out of future SD base models (which doesn't matter), but they can't opt out of someone making a LoRA of their work (which actually works).