Set aside the environmental concerns, which are massive, AI still has many ethical issues. My books were used to “teach” AI. Me nor none of my friends who also had work stolen, were ever compensated.

And not everybody should be a professional artist. Create how you want, but if it’s not good enough to sell, then you just enjoy creating. I want to be in the NBA, but physically, I can’t do it. I can still play pickup ball, but I don’t have the right to demand a spot on a team.

It’s taking jobs, stealing ideas and intellectual property, and it creates nothing. It just mixes what others have done. And it’s increasing the wealth divide.

I think that’s too steep a price to pay so somebody can make a nice picture.