AI art isn’t plagiarism, it uses art to train, same as any person would. You shouldn’t just believe random unsourced tacked on claims even if they’re in an Hbomberguy video.

Learning AI art has it’s own skills and knowledge and challenges, it’s just a different skillet same as digital art to traditional art. It’s not just “fiddling” anymore than drawing is fiddling.

'sides, not everyone can draw well in the end, and even those who might be able to can’t really dedicate that much time to such a pursuit as a hobby if they have work/family etc. I’ll probably never get good at a musical instrument but I wouldn’t let that steal the joy of making music on my PC in a DAW with some VSTs.

I know PewDiePie did it with that one challenge, and the anti-AI crowd praised him, but aside from saying slurs on the internet it’s not like he has a job, he’s just a multimillionaire who never has to work a day in his life again so not exactly a valid comparison for a normal person.