To whomever needs to hear it,
I did not learn, practice, struggle, fail, persevere, and sacrifice throughout my years of creativity just to serve some fucking algorithm, or to be the fodder for those that wish to kill the process.
And neither did you.
At this point our position is that there can be no peace with plagiarists and their machines. They were given the opportunity to voluntarily respect our wishes. They refused. Now we must use the law and technology to involuntarily put a stop to them.
As a graphic designer, I feel this every time Adobe pitches AI at me. Adobe makes tools I supply the skill and creativity. Now it wants to be another Canvas.