the datasets, at least right now, need to be huge to get useful stuff out of them. Even if you banded together you probably couldn't, not for the results everyone is swooning over, at least.
There are many smaller scale ones, sure, and they're cool! but like, there can really be no ethical "AI" generative art that performs as well as the big ones.
I dont bring this up to shame people, but instead to point out the obvious: pushes towards "ethical" "AI" art that these companies are pushing for, is not a thing to get behind, because it'll still only be possible by trampling copyright.
And maybe they'll go after copyright next. But it won't be in a way that benefits artists, or you.
it's always a trap. It's just the traps are less obvious than Adobe slowly enclosing tools everyone used for art into a subscription service.

