>>9551
Now for your actual question:
>Let's have a discussion about the important services pony-artists provide.
Realize things that are otherwise impossible and put our collective imaginations to reality? Or at least, used too...

>Artificial Intelligence is ... another story entirely.
It may replace them in that roll. Many cheer on AI to wipe them out. I understand the sentiment, from idiot tweens and teens and adults with a very childish view of copyrights and OC Donut Steal to the more mature left leaning suffocation of the twitter crowd, I get it. Though that isn't all artist and...

>So, have three computer generated attempts to compare to one person. I guess.
With AI art, still something about it sometimes just feels off, it's getting better now, but I do wonder: if AI becomes inseparable from artist, I am not just talking about replacing entirely is there something lost in the art?

Shit man, that Celestia is going to give me nightmare fuel.