The monetisation process is accelerating:
Shutterstock to sell AI-generated stock images using DALL-E • The Register
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I also saw a few AI “artists” taking commissions, taking payment for typing the prompts for you if you’re too lazy to even do that yourself.
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When Tumblr kicked me off for drawing adult material I learned to code and wrote my own from scratch out of spite.
Having your own art gallery site where no power tripping admins can tell you what to do or post is always good, and it’s one of the reasons I support as much OSS I can.
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Watch this guys. . . the guys just said what I. … what we want to say
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SMBC on AI Art
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The waters are already muddied enough for people to mistrust digital artworks.
Just like pixel artists have to defend themselves as not making NFTs, now.
I believe that getting people into not trusting digital artists, was part of the goal for AI developers. Perfection was never needed, only being good enough at replicating to devalue the works and effort of actual artist, so AI images sell even better.
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AI-generated art sparks furious backlash from Japan’s anime community
Dall-E might be the hot new thing, but outside Silicon Valley, fear and outrage are ramping up.
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I skimmed the article linked by @kacart, above, and noticed this:
In 2018, the National Diet, Japan’s legislative body, amended the national copyright law to allow machine-learning models to scrape copyrighted data from the internet without permission, which offers up a liability shield for services like NovelAI.
Twenty nine days ago, in respones to a post by @thimblefolio regarding a UK artists organisation reporting on recent similar action by the UK government, I posted the following comment:
It’s not easy to get the law changed to benefit yourself. I wonder how this is happening.
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I think there’s an underlying problem that technological development is a bit like an arms race. If a country takes a strong ethical stance that hinders domestic development, then they hand advantage to those with less scrupulous regimes.
The UK already has a major player in this with Stability AI, so I wouldn’t be surprised if the government leans towards support.
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Blimey! He clearly missed that Ian McQue is a god-tier illustrator! 
I wonder if I’d be more flattered or offended if someone thought my art was AI generated?! 
McQue apparently found it funny, looking at the thread.
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I’ve actually posted this one already, but couldn’t figure out how to embed the video. But the video is really good so I don’t think it being here twice is a problem.
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The valuation of these kind of service already reached billions
I see. no wonder I didn’t find it when scrolling the thread. .
Me personally, would feel infuriated. . .
Just like how it was very infuriated to be called stupid by . . . stupid people
This man has interesting thoughts about AI art:
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I can’t see any art in it anywhere.
What is the artistic skill of using a software (which is optimized more and more), to pass the necessary parameters, so that it solves the calculation task at the end at the push of a button and prints the result? That differs only at the printout from the printed result of a spreadsheet, or whatever software.
Michelist
Add: Sorry for repeating myself.
in the world of the arts there is a lot of talk about ‘The God-given (divine gift?)’, it seems to me that the A.I. managed to overturn this popular cliché 
That just ignores the hard work artists put in to learn their craft, just like AI generated images do.
Exactly, that’s what I’m talking about (but with a lot of irony)