The REAL Fight Over AI Art

The analogies to older technologies are very flawed when it comes to AI art, because it is not a next independent tool in the line. The network without training images produces nothing. It can only create banana in the style of van gogh, because someone fed in all the thousands of hours of his works and a bunch of stock photos of bananas. I don't hate the idea of AI filling in stuff as I paint, I want more smart brushes and technologies like that. But in the current state, the AI tool gives me no control over the style / composition / etc. it taps into intellectual property the creators never licensed to deliver what's essentially a permutation limited by whatever the training data contains. I feel that the discussion surrounding AI ethics is essentially the debate whether or not tracing is ok, but expanded into the non-artist public, who don't have enough of an understanding of what goes into art to have an educated opinion.