Strawman argument - nobody is claiming that stacks of GPUs are people.

And art cannot be controlled once it is released to the public. If you don't want people to see it, if you're too cowardly to accept the all the consequences that come with it, then don't release your art. It's really that simple.

It doesn't matter if it's my eyes and brain, the computer working for me, or the eye of Sauron for that matter. Once the cat is out of the bag, any control you think you have over it is an illusion, propped up by laws that are easy to evade.

That's a cute line to stochastically parrot, not something which anyone yet knows how to even test the truthfulness or falsity of.