One of the things being an anime fan has made me realize is how the industry goes through phases in everything: gimmicks, art styles, tropes, etc. This can at best replicate what exists, but it cannot create new styles which honestly comes from the creative process of hundreds to thousands of artists creating and influencing one another.
People keep forgetting that you really can only fit to data you have. Extrapolation exists as a concept but the requisite intuitive knowledge needed in order to create something new that can be successful is hard to understand even by humans at this point (how much of the business press is full of gimmicky blogposts about how to be successful, full of contradictory anecdata, opinions, advices), I don't even know how AI researchers would go about tackling that. I am not an AI person but as a plain old scientist I know extrapolation without intuition is almost always a fraught effort.
Sure it can, but then it's not considered anime anymore. I think this sentiment is confusing genre with training set constraints. A new model is not required for some artist to do something different from anime or even an anime artist to do something different. Humans can self-adjust all with approximately the same base model (whatever that is).
People keep forgetting that you really can only fit to data you have. Extrapolation exists as a concept but the requisite intuitive knowledge needed in order to create something new that can be successful is hard to understand even by humans at this point (how much of the business press is full of gimmicky blogposts about how to be successful, full of contradictory anecdata, opinions, advices), I don't even know how AI researchers would go about tackling that. I am not an AI person but as a plain old scientist I know extrapolation without intuition is almost always a fraught effort.