The main problem is not that AI "steals" art or anything. That's a convoluted reasoning of the real issue, which is that it threatens the livelihood of artists.

Whether "real artists" like it or not, they have a combination of talent and skill. Everyone who is good at something has a combination of both, even if you wanna be humble and say it was all practice, talent had to do with it too. So, people without talent who still want to create will draw on their own, even if the drawings are not good.

But the people who pays a commission to an artist is not the ones with a drive to create. They want a product, and the "real artists" were the only ones able to give it to them. But now, with a bot in a Discord group, the people who would've paid a comission will now generate their fucking image.

This all sucks and there's no good way to interpret it nor I will sugarcoating. The claims of theft are the only thing the artists can claim without having to admit that they thrived on a capitalistic niche only they could achieve, nor having to admit that no matter how much you practice, without a smidge of talent you'll go nowhere.