There are some pieces of widely used software (numpy, git, regex...) that are very powerful but can be highly complex, to a point where reading them is much harder than writing them with trial and error. I hope we see more projects like this, that add layers on top of those, to make them readable without making them less performant.

(Such projects likely exist already, of course, so they just need to be polished and spread)

2. They don't need to keep it a secret; the goal is to remove these images from the training data, in a way that would be much more efficient than simply adding a "please don't include my art in your ai scraper" message next to your pictures.