So now deciding to stop this progress because it affects creatives in the global north feels a bit hypocritical

Yes agree on all the points you mentioned it would be a great outcome. but my point is that a lot of creatives already got replaced by industrialisation. You dont buy your furniture from a carpenter but from ikea, you dont get glass decor from a carver just produced in a factory and so on

Yes consuming an API from an open platform is like robbing people hard earned money! lmao

It's much of AI fault as computers put out human computers out of work. Unless the argument here is against technological progress in general