Who knew the first AI battles would be fought by artists?
Surely, if the next Stable Diffusion had to be trained from a dataset that has been purged of images that were not under a permissive license, this would at most be a minor setback on AI&#x27;s road to obsoleting painting that is more craft than art. Do artists not realise this (perhaps because they have some kind of conceit along the lines of &quot;it only can produce good-looking images because it is rearranging pieces of some Real Artists&#x27; works it was trained on&quot;), are they hoping to inspire overshoot legislation (perhaps something following the music industry model in several countries: AI-generated images assumed pirated until proven otherwise, with protection money to be paid to an artists&#x27; guild?), or is this just a desperate rearguard action?