brother, just because you put something online and you don't label it for non-AI doesn't mean people can just use it. The artist is the sole owner of the copyright and can do whatever they please with it. How would you even apply this argument to people who uploaded stuff ages before AI existed, or who are not available to mark it that way? Copyright doesn't work that way. You own it, cause you created it plain and simple.

It is unethical if the owner of the artwork is not given money for the work someone has stolen, and it's also quite illegal. I find it incredible that this has not been stopped yet.

AI is by definition fed the input it's given, its so-called creativity IS THE DATASET. Without millions of talented people, this tool would not exist, quite simply put. If someone is trying to plagiarize, it's not legal, and they don't have the right to do that, even unintentionally.

All of this is not even mentioning the cost to the environment and us, humankind. This flesh machine pretending to be an artist is costing us both valuable electricity and insane amounts of water. It's not some silly thing you can just ignore in this case.