Another opinion popular with no one: AI will have on artists the same impact that Spotify had on the music industry that is, it will kill any revenue flow for anyone outside of the publishers and big artists/players.
Spotify basically killed any money coming from the physical distribution - Worse than piracy, which was inevitable too at the time, but at least you didn't have to pay your lawyers to renegotiate with your label on top of NOT getting any money.
Adobe, OpenAI, whatever: they want artists to draw for them for peanuts to train their model, sign a waiver saying "I'm ok not getting any money from any AI art made from this", and then resell the output for $$$ on something like Splice[1], at the same time overtraining such models in ways that make extremely obvious whose artist made them in first place.
At the end of the day the model itself is going to be basically irrelevant, while knowing whose works were actually used to train it being the truly differentiating feature.
But you know, "the AI did this picture, so we don't have to pay you."
Spotify basically killed any money coming from the physical distribution - Worse than piracy, which was inevitable too at the time, but at least you didn't have to pay your lawyers to renegotiate with your label on top of NOT getting any money.
Adobe, OpenAI, whatever: they want artists to draw for them for peanuts to train their model, sign a waiver saying "I'm ok not getting any money from any AI art made from this", and then resell the output for $$$ on something like Splice[1], at the same time overtraining such models in ways that make extremely obvious whose artist made them in first place.
At the end of the day the model itself is going to be basically irrelevant, while knowing whose works were actually used to train it being the truly differentiating feature.
But you know, "the AI did this picture, so we don't have to pay you."
[1] https://splice.com/features/sounds