I hate to argue this side of the fence, but when ai companies are taking the work of writers and artists en mass (replacing creative livelihoods with a machine

I hate to argue this side of the fence, but when ai companies are taking the work of writers and artists en mass (replacing creative livelihoods with a machine trained on the artists stolen work) and achieving billion dollar valuations that’s actual stealing. The key here is that creative content producers are being driven out of business through non consensual taking of their work. Maybe it’s a new thing, but if it is, it’s worse than stealing.