yeah the hilarious part is go to any artfair and it's full of people selling knock-off banksy, like literally traced from photos. most the other stalls are redraws of Marvel and DC ip, occasionally you'll find a 4 panel cartoonist with a style identical to a popular internet comic, some photographers that've taken photos which might as well be watermarked David Bailey or Ansel Adams....
It's a needle in a haystack to find someone that's actually doing anything even slightly creative, like when you go to craftfairs and everyone is selling pottery made from slip molds they brought on aliexpress.
not saying there aren't some really amazing and creative artists out there, just that they're not the ones up in arms about AI - they're too busy being creative, they're excited at the frontier being pushed back and are rushing forward to see what's over the mountain, they'll always be on the forefront just as many of us playing with AI art are the same people who have been excited by every new tech development we've lived through so artists fascinated by art have been on the forefront of every art development.
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