Copyright can be a problem but they showed The Scream which isn't copyrighted.

The rest is wrong. I'm not paying an illustrator to make a meme. I used Gimp for my last shitpost. I didn't pay a professional oil painter.

The pollution claim is way off. You can run Stable Diffusion at home on your GPU for the same energy as playing a game.

No you do not have to embrace everything new. That's not a counterpoint.

Jobs. See Gimp comment above. Photography put millions of hard working portrait painters out of business. The world ended in 1865, you just didn't notice.

Using AI doesn't need to be done on corporate hosts. You can run AI on a home built server.

My hand made art looks ugly. My Photoshopping is garbage.

Using AI is lazy. As is Photoshop. As is photography. You want human touch, hire an actual artist. Don't digitize art because that uses electricity, is lazy, and puts artists out of work. Definitely don't use lithography or other photo mechanical copying methods like printing presses. Hand draw each and every comic you distribute.