Great, so you're an asshole who enjoys stealing. Go fuck yourself, we're done talking. I also like how you didn't even address the environmental damage, but I guess you also love destroying mother Earth as well.
For one art is not a luxury. That is a capitalist myth that tried to keep culture and basic pleasure away from the working class.
See definition 2a. Art is a luxury.
If turning a a picture of you cat into studio ghibli style brings you even a brief modicum of joy, then you go do that and you shouldn't have people harassing you for doing so.
Except to achieve that joy, you have to steal from people who have to actually work. Gen AI is designed to plagiarize the work of artists for the sake of replacing them. You aren't siding with the workers, you're siding with the parasite class.
Who exactly do you think is selling commissions? It's not the wealthy conspiring to keep down the working man, it is the working man. It's starving artists who are one bad life event away from financial ruin. If you want art and can't afford $50 (sometimes much less), then maybe go without it. You don't exactly need it to live.
I already blocked all the AI communities on Lemmy. If I see AI anything outside of the those communities I'm down voting it. I don't want to see it. Seeing hideous abominations made out of plagiarized artwork really pisses me off. I don't know why people insist on posting that shit where it isn't wanted.
Tbf, I think Nintendo might have forgotten they even had this one, seeing as they've neither used the mechanic nor enforced the patent since filing it. ¯(ツ)/¯
Username checks out.