Most artists don't have control over the way their image is rendered. They just use Deviantart or Instagram, because that's where the communities are.

I would strongly argue you need both. There will always be people willing to break the law.

And yet my car got stolen yesterday.

Got anything else?

so is regulatory capture constructive or destructive?

Diffusion models learn how to denoise noise into images that are similar to training data. But what if the training data itself is noisy? Then the model will learn to produce noisy images also.

There's a reason why they try to remove noisy/blurry/bad q images, because simply put, what you put in is what you get out. While I don't agree with intentionally destroying the quality of images (ruins it for humans as well as AI), I don't see why this wouldn't work.