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In 25 years we'll reminisce on the times when we could find a human artist who wouldn't impose Google's or OpenAI's rules on their output.

the open-source models will catch up, 100%

Open models don't seem to be catching up the LLM-based image gen at this point.

ChatGPT's imagegen has been released for half a year but there isn't anything remotely similar to it in the open weight realm.

Give it another 50 years. Or maybe 10. Or 5? But there's no way it won't catch up.