re: Netflix Japan uses AI in anime (artists not happy)

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What makes you say this? From what I understand, it’s exactly the opposite - the current iteration of the AI should continue to work just fine without new training data. In fact it should continue improving based on user input without any additional training data.

Maybe you know more than I do, but the bold part above is exactly the opposite of everything I’ve read about currently available AI art generators.

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Art evolves. As consumers' tastes evolve from exposure to new artists, the AI will have to ingest new creative. If AI had been created in the 1950's and then starved of new art from that point on, it would now be at an improved state, but based solely on those styles. As Warhol, Frazetta, Basquiat, and Neiman became the popular artists of the day, those are the styles that AI would want to create to sell, but it wouldn't have the database to pull from. You might luck out and get a Patrick Nagel knock-off by AI accidentally combining his influences of pre-60's advertising illustration, pin-ups, and Japanese prints, but the chances of it hitting just as the complimentary 80's fashions made it so popular are extremely slim.

Think of it as programmatic advertising that stopped monitoring consumers when you were 16. It's now serving you ads for items it thinks you're probably into at 46, but it has no idea how you and the world's tastes have changed or that cassette tapes and VHS have been replaced by streaming.