Articles like this are hilarious. Brainwashed fanatics have not stopped publishing “the coming collapse of China” articles.

For the original: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coming_Collapse_of_China

No. Privacy is illegal in the banking/financial system.

lemmy.world mods look at reddit for inspiration.

Right now the best model is Flux: https://huggingface.co/spaces/black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-schnell

You can also get their pro version if you are ok with paying: https://blackforestlabs.ai/

Come back in 6 months and the answer will be different. Things are moving very rapidly.

Artist incomes are threatened by the rise of Generative models. Especially mediocre artists who Stable Diffusion have already surpassed.

Technology changes the world and obsoletes some professions. It has been like this for ever. Artists are not any different.

Well, people like what comes out of Stable Diffusion. Which is perfectly fine.

This is like the pizza shop complaining that I’m cooking at home.

Stable Diffusion is open source and free to be used by anyone. A lot of people have used it for creation and enjoyment. It cuts artists out of the loop and enables a lot of ordinary people to create art. I see this as a huge win.

Most of Arts will be automated away. Stable Diffusion is just the beginning.

Does the free world also include places America has invaded or bombed?

It is a bad idea to trust and rely on Ameeica. Some Afgans learned this lesson in 2021, the same is happening to Ukraine now.