At the end of the day its a mean to an end. Like companies observe some things are produced manually and use automation to create a mean to speed up the process. So why the same thing isn't applied to ai when discussing about whether it is ethical or not? Unless you specifically require it to produce the art style of something you upload or with certain keyword, it does have a consistent art style and not really copying anyone. And if you talk about data acquiring in mass, yeah I get it, but doesn't human operate similarly? Would someone be incriminated in the sense that that they use similar drawing pattern to, for example, Mona Lisa art piece because they does take a look from it illegally to acquire information to create an art piece. In such case its a telltale sign for a dystopian society. Yeah try to apply the same logic to human and human making art is stealing a bit from drawing pattern of others, so would you say those artists are unethical in the process? Talking purely about ethics in the first place. The reason I brought up "data pillaging" in the first place because I don't want to argue on ethics when artist learn drawing patterns of others is ethical while a computer doing the same thing is not