The problem is that there's a lot of indie artists out there trying to make it as hard as you are. Indie artists whose work has been fed into the models you're using without their knowledge or consent and who don't see any compensation. In a perfect world, AI art wouldn't mean artists not getting money, but as you said yourself, you don't have to hire them now. So now artists have fed into a system that returns very little if anything to them (unless you're more likely to hire an artists who uses 65% AI in their art than someone who uses none)