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You know, not too far in the future there's going to be more fake Melkor content than work actually by the artist. If it hasn't happened already. Same with everyone good; a mark of recognition, to be acknowledged as capable enough to be worth mimicking. I doubt many artists would be flattered, of course, but maybe their machine doppelgangers will still be imitating their style hundreds of years from now. If humanity is still around and recognizable and hasn't regressed technologically a great deal, which are kind of big ifs.

The other day I was watching some tinfoiler content, as I do, and the guy was complaining that there were no live battle photos from the American Civil War or the Crimean War. Only paintings of the action and aftermath photos he believes were staged. He thinks the wars were made up as an excuse to demolish cities, to hide the past. The issue behind this, aside from schizophrenia being greatly under-diagnosed, is that most kids born in this century have had little or no contact with non-digital photography. They don't think if it as a chemical process, they've never shaken a Polaroid much less been in a dark room. In another twenty or thirty years, perhaps kids will be doubting that the artists the AI was trained on actually existed as real people. I'm not saying human extinction is preferable to the inevitability of stupidity, but if our species wins a collective Darwin Award it won't be terribly surprising. I mean, I am dumb enough to watch that kind of material, fully aware it's going to be ridiculous, so I have no excuse.

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