So is most real art. In fact - artists have even created a dedicated terms to this kind of plagiarism: "style study" or even "reference". You can look for this

So is most real art. In fact - artists have even created a dedicated terms to this kind of plagiarism: "style study" or even "reference". You can look for this term on YouTube and find a nearly endless result of artists basing art off of the style of other artists. [0] It is 100% legal for me to blatantly copy the artistic style of Ilya Kuvshinov. I could even sell such work as my own - because it would be. I'd be seen as a derivative or knock-off artist but it can be done. As far as I can tell the real issue is that the AI does it far better - and much faster - than people can. Creating heavily derivative works that, if nonfamiliar with Kuvshinov's work, could possibly be mistaken as being theirs. That the AI has learned that artist signatures/watermarks are a "feature" of some artwork and so sometimes adds its own has only reinforced people's mistaken belief that it is stealing art when that simply isn't how neural networks like this work at all. Speaking of - how many people doing style studies of Ilya's work reached out for permission first? I'd wager zero. Because that isn't a thing artists tend to reach out and ask for permission to do. So why should an AI be expected to ask permission first? [0] Quite literally only to illustrate my point. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrvZTeLP96E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrvZTeLP96E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DadJAu0Ogs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DadJAu0Ogs https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gc8DhwMZDKU https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gc8DhwMZDKU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U4RSCK-Tn0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U4RSCK-Tn0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPWOy7NxYho https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPWOy7NxYho https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nc--w5NfCM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nc--w5NfCM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0K3F9al2Js https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0K3F9al2Js https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5l8y1HZ1zc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5l8y1HZ1zc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDRS9im1q4s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDRS9im1q4s https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4zBoHcIo4mc https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4zBoHcIo4mc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0cXa9WxFVQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0cXa9WxFVQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDhtkWRY9qk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDhtkWRY9qk