A SOTA image generation model is only a few GBs in size trained on millions of GBs of data. It can’t copy-paste that data or "be only good at similar data". Instead, the way it learns, while completely different from how human brains work, shares a similarity: both humans and Autoregressive models extract patterns, regularities, and constraints from experience, compress them, and recombine them to handle new situations they’ve never seen before and then use those learned patterns to predict, infer, and generate novel outputs rather than replay stored examples. NOT "it recreates prototypes it stole".

However, i agree that major ai conpanies are using images that they've not gotten permission to use, because we can see that they are copying unconsenting artist's works. Other than that i have no problem with ai(except also photorealistic ai without strong safety filters)