This is just a random picture he made for the meme. He’s not trying to sell it and it doesn’t replace an actual artist. IMO that’s an accetable use of AI.
So by that same logic, you don’t own a phone or a computer because they abuse child labour to make the chips. Why are you on lemmy then? Exploiting children indirectly is way worse than violating copyrights indirecty.
This is just a random picture he made for the meme. He’s not trying to sell it and it doesn’t replace an actual artist. IMO that’s an accetable use of AI.
There’s no acceptable use for something that can only exist by violating the copyright terms for millions of artists.
The company violated those terms, not OP.
“i didn’t kill that guy, i just asked a hitman to do it”
So by that same logic, you don’t own a phone or a computer because they abuse child labour to make the chips. Why are you on lemmy then? Exploiting children indirectly is way worse than violating copyrights indirecty.