>every good "human artist" either stops producing work or, worse, puts it behind a paywall and DMCAs sadpanda
>AI art -explodes-, and now there are thousands of new pictures of characters I want to see, every day, in equal-or-higher fidelity as those human artists who stopped producing
I cannot see how this is a loss. I wish more of my favorite artists would start using AI to mass produce their works, since the only other option is them stopping entirely. My options are "nothing" or "infinity" and the latter is obviously better than the former.