LogFAQs > #971934534

It's technically stealing because a lot of these AI generation tools are scraping from art sites without checking the rights or permissions of the actual owners and using it to produce derivative works. I think there's already a lawsuit out there from a stock photo site because they're finding their watermark showing up in generated imagery. It was a bigger deal when nfts were a thing and people were wholesale stealing art from deviantART and then selling it as their own nft.

So if this was an AI art generation site that could guarantee it wasn't using copyrighted trademarked or otherwise owned art in its training set then it would be completely valid to use it to generate tokens and whatnot. With the current tools that are available though, while generating art for tokens isn't theft, the technology you're using is built directly on top of pretty blatant theft, so do with that knowledge what you will.