It is just another tool. It can be used by professionals, but also by blatant amateurs. Like with programming, the results can be: "Garbage in = Garbage out".
Do you remember the 'Freedom of Panorama' discussions around 2015 ?
What do you want ? Some more legal restrictions, as if we didn't have too many already ?
Professionals can take Photos of public spaces, but so can Amateurs. But both enjoy Freedom of Panorama, the restrictions of which were discussed at the regulation-happy EU, brought in by some whacked out French politician. Thanks to Julia Reda and others, this was never done (unlike the rules about the shape a cucumber is allowed to have, or the max power for a vacuum cleaner).
And don't tell me that this is a different kettle of fish. What it has to do with it is the "Verbotscultur" of the increasingly N@zi orientation of the EU.
Now do you actually endorse such a "Verbotskultur" ?
Anything to do with Copyright © can be handled by existing Copyright rules. Let the courts sort it out in individual cases.
To jog your memory, here is a article that discussed this Freedom of Panorama legislation: https://wikimedia.at/panoramafreiheit-in-oesterreich-muss-erhalten-bleiben/
BTW, I use AI, and I trained it with my drawings and my paintings - so whom am I ripping off? Our mutual friend @gric is also using AI very effectively.
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Regardless if you've trained the Large Language Model on your own data, this is only a drop in comparison to the rest of the model. Do you understand the vast volume of data that is actually required to build these models? We're talking millions of images, terabytes of data.
Otto it might be fine for you, but there are artists out there who are now seeing these image generators spit out their artwork, and seeing other people sell those images.
Etsy is now dead because it has been flooded with these images.
What you are proposing is the end of copyright. This is what these AI companies want and are already doing.
I also have some bad news for you. These generators are not going to improve much more as they AI / LLMs have hit a bottle neck... they don't have enough data to train them on. Yes, they've consumed all of the internet and then some more, and that is still not enough.
Have a read of this article, it explains the crisis the AI industry is facing... a data famine and possible poisoning of their models.
Also, take a look at this video. It delves deeper into one of the issues mentioned in the post.
I have not watched this yet - and I know the arguments about these issues - but the guy in the picture looks constipated. Much like all the left-woke-whiners that want to forbid everything, and in order to do so, would just love to have a surveillance camera on every corner, perhaps even in your bedroom. If your artwork is unique, then you stand out and got nothing to fear, not even the AI bogeyman.
Someone argued that a artist friend claims that AI is ripping off his art. I researched and found that this particular artist would use design elements from Mucha. So if I prompt Mucha, whom am I ripping off? - this guy, who already ripped off Mucha? Or Rembrand, or Bosch etc etc
I say: cry more softly.
Next they are going to glue themselves onto the street (or an airport runway, or deface art in a museum) because the resources for AI (NFT's and crypto currency, just to name some other ones) are raping the planet.