You can pay rent by other means than art. Adapt or be homeless.
Abide the law, or meet consequences?
btw, regarding copyright use, i don't see how AIs are not in the "fair use" category, they take human-generated content and apply a transformation to it, generating new images. The only problem is that generating images is a million-times quicker and cheaper
See how ridiculous that sounds?
I find that evil.