As long as your AI doesn’t somehow infringe on your training data, you’re allowed to use whatever you want, just like reviewers, analysts, and indexers do.

They’re trained on technical material too.

Art isn’t work, it’s speech. It’s part of the human condition. Art is useless, said Wilde. Art is for art’s sake—that is, for beauty’s sake.

I do not make art, I just post it here on lemmy. I’d be OK with that. People freely create, copy, and iterate on memes, and they are the greatest cultural touchstones we have. First and foremost, people create because they have something to say.

People already make memes and mods for free. Humans are a social species and will continue to create and share things until the end of time. Making money off of creation is a privilege for only a tiny few.

You should read these two articles from Cory Doctorow. I think they’ll help clear up some thing for you.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/13/spooky-action-at-a-close-up/#invisible-hand

https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/09/ai-monkeys-paw/

It was a different word when this show aired. https://youtu.be/rMoDslz0EtI

Check out Civitai for Stable Diffusion models. I’m not quite sure which model they are using, but you may be able to find something on there.

Also, there’s a Stable Diffusion community at !stable_diffusion@lemmy.dbzer0.com. If you make a thread there we can help you find what model they use or something similar.