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Then that is a fucked up knife, but doesn't change anything about the dish.
The argument is: the dish requires the use of the fucked-up knife.
If AI art only used ethically-sourced data, there'd be a lot less objection to it.
I can say, for sure, that this isn't true.
People still catch the exact same flak for using generative fill in Photoshop despite Adobe training their models on artwork with the explicit permissions (and compensation) of the artists involved in making the training data.
People treat every model like it has personally eaten ever drawing and macaroni painting that they've ever done.
There is no ethical consumption under capitalism.
The actual problem is the exploitative system of "IP" and having to serve capital in order to survive, not people making pictures with computers.
I don't think that means what you seem to think it means. You're coming of sounding like the phrase excuses unnecessarily supporting labor theft and exploitation by AI companies.
Indeed. The major problems really are that we live on a capitalist hellscape and that the technology is contributing to destruction of the biosphere in a major way.