> There's really no other way forward as a society, otherwise creatives' work can always just be stolen at will by laundering it through an AI model. There woul

> There's really no other way forward as a society, otherwise creatives' work can always just be stolen at will by laundering it through an AI model. There would be no incentive for the next HR Geiger or Moebius to work hard on a distinctive aesthetic when anyone with a computer could make art just like theirs. The games market has been dealing with this for a while and things work out. We get original, meaningful games that are easily pirated, and original, meaningful game mechanics copied by giant, powerful corporations. Nonetheless those people thrive. So I don't know. This is a kind of doomerism that isn't going to play out, it's reacting to a lack of creativity among monetization for illustrators and a lack of opportunities that have always existed, rather than anything specific about the mechanics of laundering this or AI models that.