I don’t think this is a great analogy. The issue here isn’t the tool, per se; it’s that the tool is reproducing work from other artists found in its training se

I don’t think this is a great analogy. The issue here isn’t the tool, per se; it’s that the tool is reproducing work from other artists found in its training set. The antecedents here are things like pop art, Duchamp’s readymades, sampling in hip hop, collaging.