Open.ai stole training data and made a web page that sells hundreds “X in the style of artist Y” images for pennies, and they don’t pay commission to the sources for the percentage they contributed. Any large company could have created such an AI in the last few years, they just didn’t dare sell it as a product because it’s clearly on the dark end of the legal grey area. It’s about who sets the legal precedence first and makes money first. Other companies (who maybe tried to find a way to pay the artists fairly) are now commercially punished.
Now, Cyan can make the choice to only generate non-contemporary Art Nouveau and generic text snippets and hope that the training materials used in the output were 98% free to use, but not every company uses it “ethically” like that.