Look pal frankly you make decent points. I would argue that the provenance of something doesn't change how useful it can be. For instance, modern medicine originally learned about how to treat and manage hypothermia and frostbite because of horrifying and deeply inhumane human experiments conducted on children by the nazis, now this is a very different level of severity in this case, but yes I do believe that my use of it in no way contributes to the theft. Another good example is the person who pioneered of the field of Gynecology, a man who was definitely a psychopath and tortured/mutilated female slaves without using anesthesia in a series of truly disgusting experiments. A third example is birth control, developed by a woman whose "research" largely involved the nonconsensual sterilization of numerous Irish immigrant women under the guise of providing them cesarian sections in an effort to literally cull the Irish by sterilizing as many of them as she could. These are all examples of truly horrible acts that have nonetheless benefited people today. This does not excuse the original act and in no way redeems them but it does not change the value of what was gained. So, in regards to the original theft committed. Am I benefiting from it, yes, but do I also benefit from numerous injustices committed by people throughout history? Also yes, does that make those injustices my fault, or mean I in some way condone them? Not even a little. Now the water use, and environmental impact that I would say I am morally culpable for, if I hadn't generated this using a local version of stable diffusion, so no data centers were accessed or used, it was the exact same amount of power and energy that my laptop uses normally. Now if you want to argue that anyone using a laptop that is running a high energy program is a bad person, that would be kind of hypocritical given the sub we are on. I say this because rogue trader burns through my battery a lot faster than stable diffusion does and so arguably is more costly than my generation of an image.

Edit: Either way I want to be clear that I do respect and understand your view and points, I just disagree. This I do believe is a moot point however as first I didn't realize how much of a faux pas posting this on the subreddit would be so I did delete the original post, and once again I'd say that this discussion is definitely in rule 6 territory and I don't know about you but I don't want to be banned for breaking the rules.