Using their work against them

I shouldn’t need to say this, but apparently I do: all existing generative model products are unethical. I’m not talking about legality here. A thing can be legal but unethical. These models are built on people’s creative work, without their permission, and then integrated into products that directly threaten their livelihoods. Their work becomes a facet of the model’s output without attribution. This is straightforwardly unethical, irrespective of the legality or how the models work internally. You are using people’s work to destroy their livelihoods. People should always come before software and models are software not people.