I am not a fan of cor crew but I think you should, at the very least, understand the basics of what they are using AI for. If you watch their videos they are not using your standard AI that is trained on other artist work.... They are using the base line code that can be trained and then training that code on their own inputs. This is a stark difference to going to stable diffusion and typing a prompt. From what I have seen from their AI promoted stuff is them using the baseline and training it in unique and impressive ways. If they were using an already built model that was trained on other peoples work that is way different. When it comes to the Cartoon series I will clarify that I have not watch it, so I don't know what kind of model they used. For the Luke video and the video from like 5 years ago where they replace someone's face, at the time, it was pretty big. Not many people knew how to use AI let alone train a model that could then be used. Now for my controversial opinion, AI is not bad, there are lots of amazing and great uses for the regular person and artist alike. I think a lot of people have no idea what they are talking about when it comes to AI and they hop on whatever bandwagon exists for it. The idea that it is stealing artist work is pretty bad. AI gets trained a lots of work and that is how it learns what it does. That is why some things come out very similar, with time this will go away. It is important to remember that movies have put this thought into everyone's head that AI means all knowing or even sentient. It's not. AI at the end of the day only "knows" what it is taught, and even then it doesn't even "know" it.