I respectfully disagree. It's not gatekeeping to keep the robbers out of your house. I've upvoted this post as per the community rules, as it's an unpopular opinion.

That being said, it's important to consider the reasons why AI generated images are controversial. The mangled remains of artist's signatures have been found in AI generated images, and on some art-based websites such as Art Fight, AI generated images are not allowed as they fall under the definition of art theft. Moreover, AI generated images cannot be copyrighted.

Some websites are not shy about taking the work of artists to use them for their generative AI models. The best way that I have seen this explained is that an AI image generator is like a person who is being commissioned to draw something. The requester describes what they want, but they did not actually make the picture. AI image generators take millions of drawings that artists have made, typically without their consent or knowledge, and stitch those images together to make something resembling what the prompter describes. Going back to the analogy of commissions, this would be similar to commissioning someone to draw something for you, but the person being commissioned turns out to be someone who just takes other people's art and copy pastes parts of them together, or traces over other people's art, without the permission of the affected artist(s).