Doesn't seem to apply to Stable Diffusion and Dall-E because there is substantial human work involved - picking and evolving the prompt and selecting the best r

Doesn't seem to apply to Stable Diffusion and Dall-E because there is substantial human work involved - picking and evolving the prompt and selecting the best result. Sometimes it's also collaging and masking. Maybe it could apply to making "variations" where you just have to click a button. But you still have to choose the subject image on which you do variations, and to pick the best one or scrap the lot. It's completely different from a monkey stealing your camera and shooting some pictures. AI art depends on the intent and taste of the human, except when it's an almost copy of a training set example, but that can be filtered by software. And if we look up from art, there are other fields that stand to benefit from AI image generation. For example illustration for educational contents, or ideas for products - shoes, clothes, cars, interior designs, maybe even cosplay costume design, it could be used to quickly create training data on a very specific topic, or to create de-biasing datasets (super balanced and diverse by design). A specially tuned version could function as a form of mood-inducing therapy - or Rorschach test. As a generative model of images it is of interest for AI research. So copyright gotta be weighed against all the other interests.