I get both sides. Training practices vary too. Shutterstock licensed training data to OpenAI. That doesn’t answer every concern about consent or compensation, but it matters when talking about how these models are trained.
I see visual art similarly to programming. Generating an image or some code is one step. You still need direction, consistency, judgment, and the ability to put everything together into something that works. Artists and designers bring those skills, and their value goes beyond fixing AI mistakes.
Some paid work will disappear or change, and I understand why people are worried. But AI covers a lot of different tools, and there’s no single switch to turn it all off. To me, trying to stop it to preserve jobs is like banning cars to preserve work around horse-drawn transport. I’d rather protect people’s rights and help them adapt. The work changing doesn’t make their skills worthless.