If you had been reading them in good faith, the first article follows naturally into the companion blog post.

However, these also don’t seem to change my initial opinion. The first article talks about the writers guild ruling that you should not be able copyright anything created wholly by AI, as it should be used as a tool. This feeds into my point that you can’t really claim to have truly made anything made by using an AI (unless you created all the training images and run the AI yourself, that is properly employing it as an artistic tool)

This isn’t true either, see this guidance by the US Copyright office.

The second one isn’t about copyright law, you should read the whole thing.

I linked articles by people whose explanations can do justice to this incredibly complex topic much better than I can. The point is obvious if you take the time to actually read them.