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As generative AI image software, such as Stability Ai and DALL-E, continue to advance and proliferate the creative market, the number of potential problems/concerns that these systems pose on creativity and artistry has risen. . During 2022, artists from various mediums raised concerns about the impact that generative artificial intelligence could have on their ability to earn money, particularly if AI-based images started replacing artists working in illustration and design. [88][89] In August 2022, digital artist R. J. Palmer stated that "I could easily envision a scenario where using AI a single artist or art director could take the place of 5-10 entry level artists... I have seen a lot of self-published authors and such say how great it will be that they don’t have to hire an artist"[79] In a journal article written for the AIES '23 conference titled AI Art and its Impact on Artists, Jiang et al. supports this concern of economic/job loss in creative fields by stating, “Leaders of companies like Open AI and Stability AI have openly stated that they expect generative AI systems to replace creatives imminently ” adding that, “This labor displacement is evident across creative industries. For instance, according to an article on Rest of World, a Chinese gaming industry recruiter has noticed a 70% drop in illustrator jobs, in part due to the widespread use of image generators; another studio in China is reported to have laid off a third of its character design illustrators”

AI-based images have already flooded the artistic market and search engines, with artisans like as Polish digital artist Greg Rutkowski stating that it has become more difficult to search for his work online because many of the images in the results are generated by AI that was prompted to mimic his style. [22] AI-based image generation systems are trained off pre-existing artistic images, sometimes without the original artisan’s consent, allowing the software to mimic specific styles by adding names and/or previous works into text-to-image or image-to-image prompts. Some of the training databases that AI systems are based on aren’t accessible to the public, which is “making it impossible to know the extent to which their training data contains copyright protected images. Using a tool built by Simon Willison which allowed people to search 0.5% of the training data for Stable Diffusion V1.1, i.e., 12 million of 2.3 billion instances from LAION 2B, artists like Karen Hallion found out that their copyrighted images were used as training data without their consent”

The ability of AI-based art software being able to mimic and/or forge artistic styles not only raises concerns of copyright and authenticity issues, but it also raises concerns of potentially greedy and/or nefarious uses of AI art. [90][91] . Works of AI generated art, such as a text-to-image AI illustration that won the grand prize in the August 2022 digital art competition at the Colorado State Fair titled Théâtre d'Opéra Spatial, have begun to overwhelm art contests and other submission forums meant for small artisans. [90][91] These AI submissions have forced companies such as Clarkesworld, a science fiction magazine that gave smaller artisans a chance to show off their work, to close their open submissions and only solicit works from known artisans after their submission forum was flooded with ChatGPT entries. Adding on top of the potential for AI-based works to take away opportunities for artisans, AI art also opens up opportunities for harassment and reputational damage if works get mimicked to depict hateful scenarios. Though hateful artistic mimicry is not a new concept, artists like Sarah Hendersen (who had a piece of her art copied and used to depict Neo Nazi ideals) address the fact that the issue can be made worse by the use of image generators. Jiang et al. adds onto this sentiment by stating, “tools trained on artists’ works and which allow users to mimic their style without their consent or compensation, can cause significant reputational damage by impersonating artists and spreading messages that they do not endorse”