Finally gotten to filling out that questionnaire thingy zzz

Oh yeah, I've basically sworn an oath not to post on the status bar, but Qia, when it comes to AI, it specifically ISN'T the same scale or case of just an actual artist copying a style that they like. These are big companies that own/rent data centers and such to enable image generation and all. And they do directly profit from people riding trends such as "funny Ghibli style image generation", without paying a cent to the artists/animators/directors that the style originated from.

Even if the end-user's intention is just for 'fun', it's not really the case that there's no profit at all being made from these for-fun moments.

Of course, this has been a problem since the beginning of the broad proliferation of LLMs and AI art generation tools, considering how even back at the start, you could plug in a specific artist's name and say "make something that looks like what they'd make".