If your business idea requires art, and you can't make the art yourself, and you can't pay an artist to do it for you... you don't have a business idea.
Theft* of art is not a commercial solution to your business idea.
*ᴀᴋᴀ GᴇɴAI
and to clarify, even though I say "art" here, the same could be said for voice acting, writing, code, anything. If a human created something and a GenAI company then takes that without consent or compensation to repackage for others to use commercially... that is theft. Plain and simple.
For all the "but I need placeholder images quick, what am I to do?".
Here you go. Public domain and creative commons images have been around forever. https://search.creativecommons.org/
@denmanrooke Alternatively, if you can't be bothered to search for an appropriate image, there's nothing more satisfying than boring gray boxes with plain black text:
@denmanrooke @cynblogger This is terrific, thank you!