I think current generative AI is on the losing end on this one. One of the arguments to use any training data is to compare it to how artists also get inspired

I think current generative AI is on the losing end on this one. One of the arguments to use any training data is to compare it to how artists also get inspired and copy other artists, however AI is not another sentient being (not yet, at least). Since AI is a tool, this means the people training the Ai are the ones misusing copyrighted material. On the other hand, if artists want to charge the same or more for having their work in a training dataset, AI companies could still have a workaround and choose not to pay artists. There could even be a new niche economy for copycat human artists that create new art in whatever style just for training AI. What I'm trying to say is that while artists complaints are in the right, they are useless, as this new wave of technology is just like the digitalization of music that happened 20 years ago. Those who were against downloading music and refused to be part of platforms like Spotify have become irrelevant.