If you are using cGPT, you can tell it to not do that and it will respond as concisely as possible while still using complete sentences. Works great for me when I am not trying to get a dissertation back from the prompt...

This sort of data mining has been going since well before 2017 - If you want a fun little read, check out Ingress, the precursor to PoGo that Niantic created.

While it's accurate that no artist would be paid in the context you've given, it's entirely reasonable for artists to be upset when their work is used for training without consent, especially if others then profit from it which is an actual reality with any service like Canva.