AI "Stealing from artists" is a misnomer LLMs don't hold a copy of the work and pass it's output verbatim. The act of training models on artistic work in a legitimate way is not "stealing". You're not stealing Jane Austen's work if you train an LLM on it and then use that LLM to create new work based upon it. Artists become artists because we have something to say. Ask any artist if they would be object to their work being used as inspiration or built upon. And so it has been since human etched the first paintings on a cave wall. IP, copyright laws exist so that artists are recognized and remunerated for their contribution. They should be upheld irrespective of AI.