> The Robot needs the artist to train.
It doesn’t, though. The models that are transforming the markets now would continue to do so, in much the same way, if no additional art from working “traditional” artists was used to train either base models or fine tunes.
Sure, if this existed before the models – which it couldn’t, since it incorporates one of them directly – and had been applied to all existing (including public domain) art and it was completely effective and had no immediate countermeasure, it could have obstructed or delayed things, but now its trying to unring the bell, and it can’t, even if it worked flawlessly on a technical level.
> The robot can't train on its own output because it doesn't understand what it's supposed to be drawing.
Actually, a very significant source of training data for new training of models is…output of existing models curated by the trainer. The robot can be trained on its own output.
> Artists don’t need to collaborate with the tool running their livelihoods either.
Ironic statement, given that they do even to use Glaze, which incorporates exactly the tool they are blaming to do its work. In fact, the entire poisoning attack is done by injecting other artist’s styles into their work, in the hope of confusing style extraction. That is, the tool literally does exactly the thing it is intended to prevent, as its preventive measure.