Comment by nananana9

There's real reasons behind the huge divide in how the median programmer views LLMs vs how the median artist views image models.

1. Most programmers are better than SOTA LLMs, while most artists can't match the rendering quality of a SOTA image model. Artists rightfully see image models as a way bigger threat than we see LLMs.

2. While it's true that LLMs are trained on unlicensed code and image models are trained on unlicensed art, a lot of the publicly available code was essentially released with a license of "here's some code, you can use it for whatever"

3. Code is seen as a means to an end, while art is an end in itself. Few people, even among professional programmers love programming, or program recreationally (this forum obviously has disproportionately many). Most artists love the process of making art.