Artists pay those people and make their jobs needed. Same as the person above claiming Duchamp didn't negotiate with the ceramics makers - yes, they absolutely did and do pay their suppliers. Artists aren't smash and grabbing their local Blick.

AI pays no artist.

>Artists pay those people and make their jobs needed.

Enter factories, now you gather all the knowledge from those who made the product, automate it and leave them without jobs.

Not digital artists, though.

Why on earth would you choose the word 'lynch' here? At worst I'm suggesting mild disapproval and regulation, not historically racist mob violence.