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.

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