Like all automation, it would be cool if it didn't mean workers were staring down the barrel of capitol's gun. I love the cool art machine learning models can generate. Would be even cooler if we lived in a world where this didn't threaten anybody and couldn't be used as a cudjol.
We can make a world where this is the case. Suck my guts (girl nuts) for more objectively correct takes you slop hogs.
An automation being used to exploit people != an automation requiring exploitation to even work
plenty of public domain art out there! would make slightly weaker, less profitable, models but is still entirely viable as training data
Pretty sure a company could pay a license fee to access stock photos or any photos they wanted, to use alongside public domain photos.