It's simple. Take away all the art they are scraping the internet to sample from (I use that, since the similarities to music sampling are there) and they have nothing. The programs are built on our real artist's backs. Type in an artist's name and a subject matter and you get something as if it were painted by their hand has wide-ranging implications from stealing their careers to creating NSFW work as if they painted it or even take spaces in coveted comic convention artist alley spaces. Back in the day, if an artist had emulated another artist's style, they would be considered a clone hack, especially in illustration. I went through phases of emulating my influences, which I sought to shed and find my own voice. That's the point, you find you're own voice that makes you unique. Typing something into a program that spits out an image doesn't make you an artist and never ever will. Delusion is strong with so-called AI artists. The issue commercial artists have with AI is very specific...