"The idea of wanting to know the human artists who breathe soul into the models, sparked by AI, is really wonderful! I also got interested in drawing because of AI and spent some time studying how to draw for a while.
However, at this stage, I feel that if the site tries to link AI-generated works with artists in some way, it would probably spark quite a bit of controversy. Since many artists are opposed to the model training itself in the first place, if the platform were to go so far as to label it as "this is in the style of [Artist]," it might be doubly disrespectful. Therefore, I have no plans to add this kind of feature for now.
Regarding affiliates, I know that models marketing themselves as "completely copyright-safe" actually employ that kind of system. They sign contracts with artists and distribute earnings based on their contribution level within the model. However, for a small-scale site like ours, we currently don't have the capacity to go that far...
If you are interested, I highly recommend trying to trace art styles through the artist tags on Danbooru. If you find a tag you're interested in, you should be able to trace it back to the actual artist from that tag name.
The creator of the Illustrious model once said something like this. In contrast to earlier models that tried to anonymize artist names by hashing them, he said, "It's actually better to keep the model in a state where it can recognize the original artist's name. Allowing people to trace the roots of a style is what ultimately leads to showing respect to the artists."
So, if your goal is to "find the human roots behind an art style," you don't need to feel guilty at all about using artist tags.
