Interesting. I am an artist, but I find it helps me make better art. Faster too.

But all my work is copyleft and I give zero shits about so-called "copyright infringement"

Normal people boycotting AI models will not stop executives from being hostile to artists.

Especially people who would have otherwise not paid for art.

oh noooooo not the copyright infringement!

I do break copyright law every single day of my life. And so far the only harm I've done is avoiding Disney a free pass to kill my wife.

Copyright law is bad. Sharing is caring.

Also I've make AI images with Stable Diffusion self hosted on my N100 server that takes way less energy than a normal computer being turned on for hours using Photoshop, so I saved the world by doing AI images instead of manually painting them.

I fail to see how is traing AI on publicly available images hurting small artists?

You don't have to write if you don't have time, link to explanation is good for me.

I basically use generated images in places that would not have any ilustrations before. There is no budget. When I have money for an artist I hire an artist.