If these models are trained on human artists, what’s going to happen if humans stop making original art? It’s obvious from the OP that even a single film is enough to add a new stylistic capability to Dall E, so even though it might have been trained on hundreds of years of human artwork, a single modern piece can still influence significantly.

> This means that most artists will also struggle to make something as good as these models

This makes me think that you’re lacking a fundamental understanding of what art is. The “demand” for art is never going to disappear, but these models are simply going to disrupt the supply by flooding the market with derivative works at a massive scale.

The internet posed a similar threat back when it first came out, but laws were changed to combat that (e.g. the DMCA). I fail to see how this situation is any different?

A country that doesn’t get on top of this issue will doom itself to cultural irrelevance in the long term, IMO.