The training for the models still requires massive data centers, ai has caused data center power usage to double in the last five years, and wasting power on stealing art is still wasting power even if you reduce it down to just running a local model on your gaming pc, which is a tiny fraction of users.
The personal impact is the artist that does not want their art used this way. In this case the artist has made it incredibly clear that ai is a cancer on society and an affront to human life. I think that would affect a normal person that has any shame or empathy.
Probably fewer countries excusing the hard power they use?
Just because they occasionally kiss their victims doesn’t make what they do to them first any better. It never has. But if the world’s bully finally stops providing any good then maybe we can move on as a species.