I wish people would stop comparing AI to human beings, an AI using the product of your labor without your consent to emulate the characteristics of your work is not the same as an actual human being studying the works of someone for inspiration or to learn.

If you trained an AI to write a Sarah Silverman book, that is unethical, so I don't understand why it's ok to do that in just a more dispersed way. You're still profiting off someone else's work (sometimes life's work) without any kind of compenastion.

This fervor to shove the human being to the side in favor of AI is really dehumanizing and doesn't serve to foster creativity but to stifle and clip it for the profit of some company's bottom line. It's the worst aspect of capitalism made even more efficient, now not just stealing people's physical labor but scraping off the intangible qualities that define an individual to dump them into a machine. It's horrific.