Right....which involves a fair amount of productive and administrative labor to assemble and operate. If I can take a collection of scans and feed them into my diffusion appliance and have it pop out and endless supply of new panels 24-7, the economics of the handcrafted original artwork factory start to look really bad.
Upside: the brilliant artist Rohan Kishibe falls under a bus, but while his loss is tragic his artistic legacy lives on - hooray!
Downside: up-and-coming artist Rohan Kishibe is on the verge of breaking through commercially, but the publishers of Shonen Lump, who invested heavily in AI, floods the market with work from Kohan Rishibe, and our hero is derided as a mere imitator.
