There's an ongoing fracas in the art community of consent around models consuming and benefiting of others work. I'd argue the bigger issue is that it encourages a perpetuation of cold and lifeless facsimiles, imitating art. If 5-10 years from now all the art I see in my everyday life ends up being AI vomit I'll be that much closer to necking myself. It's development is endemic of corporate cost-saving. Art costs money to manufacture, now a facsimile of it costs next to nothing to manufacture and at a speed that real artists can't compete with.

My only hope at least for what seems to be an inevitable development is that real art will be valued more as a result, assuming we can tell the difference. It's like choosing flooring for a house: linoleum with a print of hard-wood parquetry will look good enough if you don't look too closely, but it's not the same as the real thing and everyone knows it.