[echelon]

"Good artists borrow, great artists steal."

A lot of artists get started with tracing before taking off the training wheels. You also see new art styles quickly proliferate across the entire community, so clearly there's some unspoken copying happening.

These models are producing new works in nearly identical styles. That's something a trained human could conceivably do.

[lmm]

> A lot of artists get started with tracing before taking off the training wheels.

Sure, but only privately. Publishing something you traced is a massive no-no, and selling it even more so.

[boppo1]

Picasso was a hack, and it's reflected in that quote of his.

[numpad0]

Yeah, but when couple lines match up with existing arts, you go up in flames and you change the careers. NAI is doing the first half of that.