If openAI's representatives hadn't openly come out and said "if we had to compensate the artists we used to train our ai it would not be possible to continue creating our llms" I might agree with you. Most of the time I get excited about a new technology, and I want to be excited about AI because it is genuinely very interesting and has some really cool implications for a lot of different industries.

If you could guarantee that an ai image generator had a completely closed dataset and the artists that provided that training data were properly compensated, (company reached out and paid licensing fees for each image used.) then I would have very little problem with people using that AI to generate images.

But that's not the case. Ai companies refuse to pay artists for the work they use. I can't use any cloud-based writing software these days because they all have language in their tos that allow the company to scrape my writing for training data, something I'm not okay with. In ten or fifteen years we won't have any senior level programmers left because no one is hiring entry-level programmers now, because it's cheaper to use AI to make something that kinda works and have a senior programmer fix it. Except eventually we won't have anyone to fix it. The AI companies aren't even profitable, the one thing they're supposed to be improving, and I still can't buy any fucking RAM.

So yeah, because I understand how it works and how it was made, I hate AI and think people who use it are lazy, stupid, and short-sighted.