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This is just the good old "You don't hate X, you hate capitalism."
The outrage is about an artist at WotC using an AI model trained on fully licensed images, so the plagiarism argument doesn't hold any water in this case.
That's not what plagiarism means. At the very worst it could be a copyright violation, but they're not really distributing someone else's work without permission. Licensing issue? Possibly