It's not an apt analogy, unless you think that the production of generative images will be restricted to a few parties (because that is what copyright does, it

It's not an apt analogy, unless you think that the production of generative images will be restricted to a few parties (because that is what copyright does, it restricts the right to copy to the originator). And then if it was restricted to a few parties, they still have to compete with human artists, they can't just charge whatever.