The REAL Fight Over AI Art

This technology is not optional, and no amount of effort to control or gatekeep it is going to be effective. The input of people wanting to regulate it is irrelevant, and those upset by its use are not going to win this war. I find the complainers and whiners irrelevant and annoying because at the end of the day they will lose this battle like it or not. 

The power of the hardware running the tech is "currently" in the realm of what someone in upper middle class can afford to fund with an expensive hobby budget (On the order of magnitude of some old white guy buying a fishing boat, sonar, all the equipment, and tackle, and special gear to go out and do what he loves, or countless other hobbies like creators who have CNC machines and lathes in their garage for messing around with random shit they want to make). Coupled with a bit of know-how they can use a private server made in their home with machine learning algorithms already available on GitHub to start getting close to the results they see from some of these major contributors. 

Add in actual expertise, reverse engineering, and the natural progress of the field being beyond the control of anyone (Since most of the methods are being published in scientific papers within a year of their discovery with only a SHORT layover time during which the companies profit off the exclusivity), and suddenly, you have thousands of totally unregulated version of this tech popping up everywhere within a decade. 

Also... In a decade, the power of the computers in peoples houses will compare to modern servers, making it easy for this to scale beyond regulation. 

The naïve belief that anyone is going to stop this, or regulate it so it isn't used for "certain things" is stupidity and ignorance. At best we can regulate the posting of the creations publicly, not the actual creation of the pieces, or the tech to make them in the first place for private use.