Personally, I have no issue with models made from stuff obtained with explicit consent. Otherwise you’re just exploiting labor without consent.
(Also if you’re just making random images for yourself, w/e)
((Also also, text models are a separate debate and imo much worse considering they’re literally misinformation generators))
Note: if anybody wants to reply with “actually AI models learn like people so it’s fine”, please don’t. No they don’t. Bugger off. arxiv.org/pdf/2212.03860.pdf here have a source.