Yeah, it's pretty easy to get Stable Diffusion to spit out images which are blatantly recognizable as slight distortions of real photographs or product images.

Yeah, it's pretty easy to get Stable Diffusion to spit out images which are blatantly recognizable as slight distortions of real photographs or product images. I think "medieval market square" was a prompt which got me variations of one photo of a European city. It's sophisticated software, but the analogy with teaching a human artist really doesn't hold. Ultimately it's making complex mashups, and the copyright law around that is not straightforward.