/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

I got a question for artists who are against AI art, because it learned from other peoples material.

If you are an artist:
Do you use reference material when creating your art?

If yes:
Do you ask for persmission for every piece of reference material you use?

If no:
Where is the difference of having a digital neural network use other peoples material to generate new images to a biological neural network (brain) to use other peoples material to generate new images without asking for permission beforehand?

>>5015372
could american comics have been saved if they divided the labor in a sane fashion instead of having a random ape ruin good pencils with bad ink and then a monkey bury the whole thing in god awful colors?

>>4997702
>notice mistake
>make no effort to figure out how to correct it and do it properly
>move on
>make the same mistake again
they're working on improving underlying issues and basic skills, what does this have to do with turd polishing?

I'm new to artbooks and this thread, does some one know a good "place" - website, folder, whataver, that shows artbook covers? I don't really know author names, and looking at .txt won't tell me much, it would be really cool if there was some catalogue of covers.