I mean, if we're getting real about it, we are all using other people's work to create new concepts. That's what you're doing at art class. AI just doesn't have to train for years to develop the skills to steal from other people. We are constantly recycling old ideas in new ways, and, imo, AI just redistributes those creative opportunities to those who lack skills. I know this disenfranchises those who trained to some degree, but isn't that what progress is about?

To your point, the more I mess with AI, the more I can pick out patterns... especially in human faces, but that's where the human vision comes in to change it.

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