  Since NFTs and large generative models (such as DALLE2 and Stable Diffusion)
have been publicly available, artists have seen their jobs threatened and
stolen. While artists depend on sharing their art on online platforms such as
Deviantart, Pixiv, and Artstation, many slowed down sharing their work or
downright removed their past work therein, especially if these platforms fail
to provide certain guarantees regarding the copyright of their uploaded work.
Text-to-image (T2I) generative models are trained using human-produced content
to better guide the style and themes they can produce. Still, if the trend
continues where data found online is generated by a machine instead of a human,
this will have vast repercussions in culture. Inspired by recent work in
generative models, we wish to tell a cautionary tale and ask what will happen
to the visual arts if generative models continue on the path to be (eventually)
trained solely on generated content.
