kde, linux, busses, open source and the good old Grateful Dead.
I can’t buy into the theft idea. It is like describing ideas in mathmatical concepts. The ai contains nothing of the original.
Is there another word that fits better? I don’t know.
On the other hand, why would anyone buy art without knowing the artist? I commision art, I buy art, but I always get to know who it is from and in most cases how they made it: watercolor, oil, pen, etc.
Even then it would be a copy. In this case it would be like downloading an amalgam of thousands of movies, not quite like any of them