All these big models took a lot of artists works and jammed it into their data sets. They aren’t crediting artists for anything. They aren’t paying artists anything. They are enabling people that are not artists to do things they couldn’t have previously done without an artist.

I think what is wrong is these AI companies not getting artist opt in when creating these models. These artists should be paid if their style is being used to generate images that can be used commercially.

These arguments by Steven Zapata Art on YouTube are very well thought out.