>AI isn't biased, it just uses what is available to it.

I mean, that's a little convoluted.

The bias in the dataset creates a bias in the AI. Remember that AIs aren't necessarily looking at the data set every time they need to create something; they're trained on the data set, but the model itself isn't referencing the dataset when it's not being trained.

So yeah--the initial bias definitely comes from the people who select the training data. But the bias persists in the absence of that data, too.