The newer models let you sketch out the scene and it fleshes it out on top of that structure. Real artists can use it to create amazing works in seconds.
But most of what you'll see is just people using the random noise source image and getting random results.
First of all, I think you're overstating the quality of AI art. Secondly, I don't see how it can be theft, unless the art is exclusive.
I see you haven't been accompanying the AI art world for the last few months...
Not aggressively, but what I've seen has been mostly nightmarish eldritch horrors being called art.
The newer models let you sketch out the scene and it fleshes it out on top of that structure. Real artists can use it to create amazing works in seconds.
But most of what you'll see is just people using the random noise source image and getting random results.
That sounds more like what I've seen.