It's pretty impressive that Stable Diffusion can compress over 200TB of already previously compressed images from LAION 5B down to a few gigabytes! And that it can search that database so quickly to copy and paste things from the right images! /s

There's a lot of good discussion to be had around the ethics of AI art, training on copyrighted materials, etc. But it is equivocally not just copy pasting from a database of images.