"AI Art" all looks the same to me. Just enough fuzziness in the style so you can't see the hard edges of what they copied, or rather indexed in memory as part of the training dataset, then created a small variation of that.
That might be good enough for replacing Pexels, Unsplash or any of those stock photo sites that blogs pull from. But not much else.
I'm sure this can be monetized to generate convincing AI porn, but for non-porn uses, what will it replace? Deep fried memes?
The only photos worth money are those of real people photographed at real moments in time. Nobody ever bought a Getty subscription for photorealistic clipart.
Also I can generate a photo of Leonardo DiCaprio picking his nose with a French fry, so that has some value for me.
They continued building off their latent diffusion direction (encode with vqgan-vae and then diffusion in latent space)
All roads lead to rome
https://github.com/CompVis/stable-diffusion https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.10752