As a human, I think this was written by an AI. I think a lot of the responses here were written by AI.

You are absolutely correct. The luddites are the ones who have zero understanding of how an AI works while shouting down those that do. Sadly I'm not sure right and wrong are going to matter much. This is a battle of money and power, both of which are in short supply among starving artists.

Copyright is alive and well. Copyright protects many of the worlds largest businesses. Much of the code behind these AI is in fact under copyright. What is being made obvious here is that there are two sets of laws at play. Copyright for the rich and mega corporations. Nonconsensual open source for individuals and creatives.

I'm excited about the tech but the art is in fact stolen and one doesn't cancel out the other. The code that Co-pilot suggests has been verifiably proven as stolen and it's the same underlying system that's powering AI art. If all of the artists whom these AI were trained on had been compensated or even consented to this it would be a whole different story.

Given your post a bit further down I'm going to assume this was an unsuccessful attempt at humor.

This sounds suuuper unethical.

No argument there. But where does the leap from "we have a box which could arguably hold a consciousness" to "any sufficiently complex box will spawn consciousness" come from? I'm not saying it's impossible but where is the supporting evidence?

If any sufficiently complex system resulted in consciousness we would already see random occurrences popping up across varying super computers, many of which possess the required FLOPS. Also AI don't evolve, they're designed.