AI art is an insult to life itself

"AI is a tool, just like photoshop" - Yea, I'm glad my photoshop creates everything for me with no input or human emotion at all, stolen off the backs of artists without their consent. Same, but different.
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"What about all the inspirations before them? Artists steal, no different than AI art" - Cool, I guess artists are no different from machines now, just an art machine. Let me just mass produce more content slop for you to consume.
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The glaring issue at the moment: AI is a parasitic machine, thriving under plagiarizing and mashing pre-existing artwork scraped without any regard or respect to artists consent or its source material. It does not create, but only replicates. There is no protection of creative work under the current understanding of the outdated, inadequate and thoroughly trolled U.S. copyright law; and there was no concept of a machine that can scrape millions of pieces of work and regurgitate them, at the time it was written. AI art is theft.
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AI art uproots what it means to express ourselves, or trying to convey your thoughts, ideas or feelings to someone - through an amalgamation of your own learned experiences, lens, preferences, inspirations, artistic expression and shorthands. Why would we want to automate the one thing that makes us human? AI already overshot its usefulness of being a tool; a tool doesn't skip the process completely, from conception to completion - it's an insult. AI art will only serve to further separate art from the artists, leading to rapid mass production and hyper commodification of art that will lead to further exploitation of the artists who create our favorite works.