To find it out by yourself, it would be sufficient to read up this topic, and perhaps also its predecessor topic.
But in short, even some artists from our community are now replicated by AI because their works were illegally scraped and used to train these AI pixel generators. Other users from this community lost their jobs, because they were replaced by AI.
I don’t know how you would call it if someone sells pictures in your style and says: “Look, here I have a picture from @luttuputtu for you, what are you willing to pay?!”, or how you would like it to be fired and don’t know how to pay the bills for your living anymore? But I guess, you wouldn’t find it great and funny, I guess further, the word “serious thread” may be amongst those that you will then have in your head and on your tongue! Am I wrong?
Michelist