I've largely been indifferent on the issue but the arguments of the people that are against AI are always such pretentious BS that I end up siding with the AI advocates. "It's inspiration when we do it!"
No, it's not. Flowery rationalizations aside, the human mind is a computer. There's no special magic that is happening when it amalgamates everything it consumed to produce "original" art. It's always been plagiarism on both sides. One that always starts off blatant and becomes less instantly recognizable with improvement. From the day you are born, whether you recognize it or not, you are copying the things around you. It's what you choose to copy that actually defines you.
Understand that the distinction of what is and what isn't plagiarism was never for the benefit of artists. It was defined by lobbyists to dominate markets. And now that the profit calculation is shifting with emerging technologies, all the ignorant people that actually drank the kool-aid are gonna be used one last time to help secure monopolies over AI before inevitably being left broke on the side of the road with this made up nonsense ideology.