If AI art is stealing then perhaps a significant number of us should be behind bars right now.
Nobody cares that humans learn in principle the same way as AI. Law - which is meant to protect and help individuals to foster healthy competition & innovation without disrupting the social order + prevent monopolies - allows that. Large corporate entities should not be allowed to use that unlicensed content the same way. That's it. That's the whole point. Content was stolen to create commercial AI products.
I can't and won't deny people's feelings on the matter, but if we accept them as true, then they do seem to be using the word "to steal" in a novel way.
And always the same arguments too — not much detail but just throw & go LOL:
“it was the same before AI, so if this is a problem then stuff humans have done is a problem, relax my luddite bro” LOL