More accurately: Should we ban someone from launching a new TV show called Smashing Bad that stars Wally Witten, a high school chemistry teacher who turns to crime to make fentanyl and…
Yes I think we should. That is derivative work. The AI projects are not a tool, they are automated derivation made on models based on stolen art.
These tools need to be trained on data sets that were not stolen, first off. And the results need to be a tool, like generative fill in photoshop, that is based on the rest of the image. Not a replacement for the image itself.