I created the Midjourney artists because that’s what the credit on the release says, and I want to store the data/relationship.
I don’t see what the philosophical debate here has to do with it - the relationship can always be changed if we decide to make some sort of ‘instrument’ out of these bots instead, or whatever path we go down.
If you have specific questions that could lead to a consensus of some type on how to credit the relationship today (unlike this thread), then I invite you to ask those specific questions/open those tickets. UltimateRiff’s thread has handily popped up!