Good point to be honest

If you like that store you went to before, why do you buy from Amazon now?

Maybe he/she was thinking something like "the model cannot replicate the artist, just the art style and at least I would not look away from a original work just because now I can reproduce something somewhat similar."

Also you could ask: "If you like artist's style, why would you learn to draw like the artist?". I think this is obvious.

Its so disrespectful. Imagine you met the artist a a con and told them you trained a model on their work without permission, attached their name to it and and uploaded it online for everyone to use.

@kix 

“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.”

― Oscar Wilde

Nothing this model can do can take away the value of the artist. Nor any copycat. If you ask any artist, they will always have someone they admire and also try to mimic. The process allows you to develop your own style. We all copy and learn from each other and the great ones of the past.

the artist is kinda shite anyways who cares lma o

the original artist copied other artists too. its a rather derivative style, as all art tends to be. wtf cares

@slashkey And that's okay. I'm an artist and I also copy others. There's no real way around that. We see something we like, we try to mimic it in our own way. If there's no one to copy, we mimic reality, or our psychedelic dreams.