and not change its purpose or sentiment, or story.

I consider myself quite ignorant when it comes to technology, as well as AI, but prove me wrong that the generated photos are based on a combination of real ones. As are the texts that the machine creates, the answers it gives to questions, and so on. So when they use your photos, you may never know that. Even if they give you some cents in return.
I think copyright law is becoming very diluted, even disappearing here. And perhaps that's exactly the point. A collective work, a collective product created by many individuals, will be presented as a creation of a machine, displacing each individual masterpiece, implying that man with his own individual creations is no longer needed.