quote:
"This part has been repeated so often that nearly everyone believes it. First off, that is like saying you have stolen every bit of art you have ever seen. Even if your memory were perfect and you could reproduce every image you have ever seen with perfect fidelity, would you say that merely looking at something constitutes theft?"
Heard this so many times.
No, it is not the same.
Any human goes through individual personal experiences mixed with even genetic character traits, which is also part of the _inspiration_ .
I don't want a collection by software.
To put a human name as an artist under something, that a machine has spit out is dishonest.
AI "art" is not YOUR art, because legally you* don't own rights to what ever the software created. 
So I might steal this AI inspiration for my own pictures and take credits for them.

* Well, _you_ is not meant as a YOU- you, but for as a general unnamed addressing of users. ;-)