You are generating images sure but where do those original images that AI pulls together to create yours? They belong to artists who created them originally for AI to just take and turn into an image for someone else.

I’m not a designer either but I don’t “generate” pictures by stealing original artwork. It mashes together images from all kinds of places to make one for you and it certainly doesn’t pay the original artist.

It’s stealing because it’s plagiarism. I don’t want my work stolen. I don’t read work by people who use AI images or content because it’s not ethical.