A huge problem with the art community right now is if you're a professional artist, you basically need to maintain a public portfolio and social media presence

A huge problem with the art community right now is if you're a professional artist, you basically need to maintain a public portfolio and social media presence to find work. That ecosystem was developed and existed before image generation AI was a commercial thing, yet artists are finding out retroactively that their data got pulled into these training sets without their knowledge or consent. Even if it's legal, it's still pretty gross imo.