Comment by shagie

The question to consider is "how much do you value the craft that went into the image?" Would you still have hung it on the wall if it was created using img2img?

And to that end, those are the artists that should be concerned about AI.

If, it's an image that you sat for at a tourist attraction - then it's also the craft (and the memories associated with that) which are valued. No one is going to pay a person who takes a photograph at Pier 39 and then prints out a Futurama-ified version of that and sells it to you for $20. Those artists have something where the craft is valued.

Similarly, the spray paint artists - its the craft that is valued (I dabbled creating those scenes in povray).

But my photograph of El Capitan? I'm not worried that someone will have DALL-E generate an image and then hang that on the wall because I never would have had that sale to begin with - they're not interested in my interpretation of the scene and the "this is a real place that you could potentially stand at and see the same things that I saw" https://shagie.smugmug.com/keyword/El%20Capitan/ - the reason for those is that they are a real place.

The Futurama characters? That's not a sale that the animators at Rough Draft Studios would have ever gotten. Everyone else is doing detractive works be it done by a human or AI - it doesn't really matter.

Now, if you ordered that from an animator who did original Futurama work - then the associated craft would likely be valued a bit more. You might ask that it be signed by the artist too and 50 years from now, on antiques roadshow your kids or grand kids will ask about it and it would be worth more than the paper and long forgotten memories.