It was a blunt joke. Almost as funny as virtue signaling from a professed pirate
Please refrain from foul language. There are children pretending to be adults watching.
But I suppose the rest of the regular people here deserve a proper defense of my actions instead of a terse ad homonym response.
I use a program trained on publicly available images to built a computer model to generate artwork. As of this timestamp it is currently not protected by copyright law except in the cases an artist manually edits the outputs to a transformative degree
I'm not stealing from artists. Those artist got paid commission already (hopefully). Copyright? Well, that's a point of speculation.
I'm an artist using a tool.
Dragonein. You are literally harassing the same people you claim to defend. And then openly brag about stealing from film makers on X(Twitter)