Its true. Ops argument is basically same as calling ai prompters real artists. Its better to support who you can in good faith to keep funding projects that you like. Sure theres a point in pirating call of yearly remake: basic bitch 6 or yet another disney owned copy paste as low effort slop gets funded no matter what with the people working on it being compensated and fired after end of a project anyway. But I try to compensate to smaller outfits whenever I can and at the very least advertise them.