What are the ethical concerns of generative AI art?

Generative AI art is when computers create pictures using ideas from lots of other pictures they've seen before, kind of like a robot painter who learned by looking at many paintings.

Imagine you're drawing with your friend, and both of you make a cool picture together. Now imagine someone else took your picture, made it look different, and said that was their art. That might feel unfair, especially if people don’t know where the idea came from. Generative AI can do something similar: it uses parts of other artworks to make new ones, but sometimes people don't realize that.

Sometimes the robot painter copies parts of a real artist’s work and mixes them up, like using crayons from your coloring book without asking. That might feel like cheating if you're the one who colored those crayons in the first place.

Also, the robot doesn’t get tired or need sleep, it can make lots of art all day long. Some artists might worry they’ll be replaced by a fast and clever painter that never gets bored!