I think one of the issues with the way people are treating AI emotionally for artists, is that as a community we jumped really fast from, if you traced it, it's not real art, too. You could have a machine do the entire thing for you and it's now considered your art. 

We skipped a few steps there. 

If we can validate people tracing photos and just say that as art. But yeah, still be honest about the fact that you traced it out of respect for people who don't, sure. Think that is an intermediate step, but we skipped all the intermediate steps conveniently in ways that give favor to all these people who want to make money off of the world as an industry, but never put their heart into it before.