Artist incomes are threatened by the rise of Generative models. Especially mediocre artists who Stable Diffusion have already surpassed.

Technology changes the world and obsoletes some professions. It has been like this for ever. Artists are not any different.

Well, people like what comes out of Stable Diffusion. Which is perfectly fine.

This is like the pizza shop complaining that I’m cooking at home.

Stable Diffusion is open source and free to be used by anyone. A lot of people have used it for creation and enjoyment. It cuts artists out of the loop and enables a lot of ordinary people to create art. I see this as a huge win.

Most of Arts will be automated away. Stable Diffusion is just the beginning.