You reduced the argument to whether or not someone was getting paid for the art. And I'm just staying consistent: I've never given a fuck about copyright before this and am not going to start because AI has changed the landscape. Especially not for little clip art like this that I wouldn't put much value to in the first place.

And the whole "whataboutism" thing is a deflection used in the final stages of denial about how horrible american imperialsm has been for certain parts of the world, though it worked because it was deflecting what was already a deflection "if the US gets away with all this, then China should be able to get away with some things, too!" When I always thought neither should get away with it, rather than the "only pay attention to the one thing, let's not talk about that other thing" angle "whataboutism" invokes.

Technology has always been about making it easier to do things so that a more skilled person doesn't need to be hired to get a better result.