Should AI-generated films be eligible for major awards like the Oscars?

My illustrations have been scraped into training sets I never agreed to, and now I am supposed to applaud when that same pipeline wins Best Picture. Generative models learned their craft from millions of uncompensated artists, writers, and actors, and the lawsuits over that training data are still working through the courts. Giving AI-generated films the industry's highest honor would reward the appropriation before the law has even decided whether it was theft. I am not a purist about tools: I use digital brushes every day. But there is a difference between a tool and a machine built on other people's work without permission or pay. Until the people whose art trained these models are compensated, awards should go to films made by people, not composites of them.