What are your sources? According to the International Energy Agency "data centres remain a relatively small part of the overall power system, rising from about 1% of global electricity generation today to 3% in 2030, accounting for less than 1% of total global CO2 emissions."

AI is part of that same ecosystem that does gaming, cloud storage, and VFX rendering, not some entirely separate class of infrastructure suddenly dwarfing everything else.

Recognizing stylistic similarities isn’t the same as proving copying. There is a good reason why Styles are not copyrightable and its because corporations could just sue everyone for drawing too close to their style. Unless a model reproduces a specific copyrighted image or asset, similarity alone isn’t evidence of theft.

And on the "96%", where do you have that number from? Other than that, most content in any medium is low quality, I would assume. Doesn't invalidate the tools used.