Here's the thing with AI… Artists are having their work STOLEN by multi BILLION DOLLAR AI companies to train their AI models and those companies are profiting off unpaid and stolen work. That is theft and it is illegal. If these multi BILLION DOLLAR AI companies want to contact the writers, artist, filmmakers, costume designers, graphic designs, musicians, animators, etc and offer to PAY THEM for their work to be used in their training models… then fine, that is the artist's choice. It's essentially the artist selling their work at a price the artist sets. AI companies can afford to pay artists, artist cannot afford to have their work stolen. If the AI companies don't pay for work with consent of the artist… IT'S THEFT and should be punishable under copyright right law. TLDR: fuck you, pay me.