After the release of DALL-E 2, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and other text-to-image AI systems, there's been a flood of AI-generated artwork, with one piece even winning a competition[1].
HN readers, do you consider the images generated by these AI models to be art? Is it really ethical that they were trained on other artists' work?
[1] https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/1/23332684/ai-generated-artwork-wins-state-fair-competition-colorado