Thank you, it basically boils down to this. I'm baffled at how someone in their right mind still argues as if using any other tool is free of copyright infring

Thank you, it basically boils down to this. I'm baffled at how someone in their right mind still argues as if using any other tool is free of copyright infringement of some kind. It also boggles my mind how, in our line of work (which is often artistic in its own right), a lot of people make preconceptions on how art is made. Often reducing it to nothing but transformative generation. Such takes are deeply narcissistic, and downright wrong. At this point I'm led to believe they're AI generated.