You could argue that Toby’s contribution is more what the commissioner of an artwork does than what an artist does.
On the question of harm, a human artist can compete with another human artist, but that’s just one artist, with limited time and resources. An AI art model could conceivably be copied extensively and used en masse to put all or many artists out of work, which seems like a much greater level of harm possible.
You could argue that Toby’s contribution is more what the commissioner of an artwork does than what an artist does.
On the question of harm, a human artist can compete with another human artist, but that’s just one artist, with limited time and resources. An AI art model could conceivably be copied extensively and used en masse to put all or many artists out of work, which seems like a much greater level of harm possible.