I don't personally see much difference between how I trained myself to be a portrait artist vs. how diffusion models do. In order to learn to draw stylized port

I don't personally see much difference between how I trained myself to be a portrait artist vs. how diffusion models do. In order to learn to draw stylized portraits, I looped over: 1. Find a photo of a person as reference 2. Create portrait 3. See how well the portrait compares to the reference and the stylized art I was drawing inspiration from. The work I was doing was original in colloquial sense, but also I see zero reason why what the AI's process is fundamentally inferior to mine.