In my eye's by not tagging stuff as AI it is the same as saying it's my art seeing many examples of this on image boards not here though so at least there is that... The issues are the original artists can't even get any credit or exposure due the nature of training AI to make pictures. Its not so much the users until they don't tag the picture as AI then it is a bit scumbagish behavior on the users part. I want to like AI in a general sense but at the moment it really is the wild west and I don't like the fact that actual artists may be hurt by this and maybe even not get payed due to AI...
BINGO!! as an amateur artist, it really pains to se your art being
stolen, however, is a form of flattery as well, to see that your art is used as model to train an AI, so in some
sort of way, you're helping to create something that 10 or 15 years ago was just a pipe dream, that is just incredible....
Said that, indeed, the AI image creators are still on
diapers, and is not the same as artwork done by an actual artist, it lacks
soul, for calling it something, and will take a while for the AI to be on par with an actual artist
However, problem is, there will be a point in time, in the foreseeable future, where the AI artworks would be the norm, and artist would have to carve a niche out by themselves, because it would be easier to set an AI to do the work, and then do final retouching and call it a day
That's why a ton on controversy is going around the use of AI, whether is good or bad, whether it would end a lot of jobs and crash some well stablished industries, because it would easily overflow said industries, or if it will overcome humanity and gain setience and rebel on their creators (aka humanity), speaking of AI right now and debating on the ramifications of it on the daily life is quite a controversial topic, that i think can be done somewhere else, because we all here are in for Pr0n, not for debate over AI