THIS motivated the "current largest labor action in USA"? Not the countless other reasons but THIS?
US petty burgies at Sigliberalism are apparently mad their comission-fueled comfortable life are being endangered and are trying to twist Marx to defend it. Also they suddenly started to love IP and cry crocodile tears about poor artists being ripped.
Also lol the donwnvotes in this thread are something entirely else, guy just shared his (admittely non-40k style) pics and every positivity for him is being dogpiled.
I agree art needs more workers who are paid fairly and don't need to be so competitive to get a decent wage. The gig economy is toxic and offers people less for their work than its true value. A lot of young artists will spend 6-8hrs on a work and charge $30 for it. That's $5/hr! Far lower than minimum wage.
Due to this demand for cheap art, AI turns people who don't do any labor into salesmen who "sample" the labor inputs of others so that they have a product to sell. In this case I side with the artists, and not the wannabe capitalists trying to use technology to wrench the means of production away from the productive forces.
This will be achieved under socialism only i'm afraid. Although most likely even then there will be no turning back, just as there is no tuning back from any form of automation to any form of pre-automation outside of subsidized niches.
You do need to put time and labour in the AI generation. Currently generating something decent require dozens of tries and most likely also post processing to remove artifacts. Unless you mean the thing that really gatekeep art from the workers: talent. But if we talk about this, then labour is not the issue. Because if we talk just about labour, then that argument is the same one that was on for centuries by now.