> It would be one thing if the AI were actually trained like a human was and created unique artwork based on ideas given to it.
I am not sure you understand all this, because this is exactly what Stable Diffusion does. Give or take the “like a human does”, because we don’t understand how humans work.
> The reality is it copy/pastes parts of images it found online.
It does not. This is physically impossible; the pictures used during training are orders of magnitude larger than the model. It does not contain any description of those pictures used in training and you cannot get those pictures back.
I am not sure you understand all this, because this is exactly what Stable Diffusion does. Give or take the “like a human does”, because we don’t understand how humans work.
> The reality is it copy/pastes parts of images it found online.
It does not. This is physically impossible; the pictures used during training are orders of magnitude larger than the model. It does not contain any description of those pictures used in training and you cannot get those pictures back.