The training for the models still requires massive data centers, ai has caused data center power usage to double in the last five years

That’s a good argument for stopping the training of AI models, but the models we have are here to stay.

The personal impact is the artist that does not want their art used this way.

Maybe they shouldn’t have publicly released their art to the world if they didn’t want people or machines to make things similar to it. Copying is not theft, I think Nina Paley is right about that.