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Human artists train using other artists work. Every avenue of human endeavour is based on what came before.
My own default style shares similarities with Barbara Canepa and Rumiko Takahashi. Why? Because, as a teen, I used to copy their stuff, trying to "unlock" the parts of it that I like.
If I was to directly copy an image, and say it was my own, then that crosses over into stealing. But that's not what has happened here. And unless you get very specific with the prompts, it's not likely to happen.
Okay, but did you literally illegally download the material in the first place? Did you violate licenses that you obtained the material under? Do you intentionally imitate specific artists so that casual observers can't tell the difference and then fill the entire space with more shitty art using that style than any human artist could ever product, such that the original artist who developed it no longer has control over that style and has their future income devastated?
It's not the same thing and you'd have to be willfully ignorant by this point to think that it is. All the major LLMs are "fruit of the poisonous tree." They were trained using stolen data that they were not entitled to use for those purposes. The artists SHOULD HAVE BEEN PAID for their work training the AI.
What if I told you that I trained my brain on copyrighted materials that I pirated from the Internet? I make games and I have for sure downloaded games I didn't pay for and played them. I know I have used some of the mechanics from those games on my own. Am I a bad person?
What if I told you that you're not software? What an absurd comparison.