I've been playing around with stable diffusion a bit, and if you use an iterative process starting with either an extremely vivid and "code-golfed" prompt (like

I've been playing around with stable diffusion a bit, and if you use an iterative process starting with either an extremely vivid and "code-golfed" prompt (like verses of poetry, concise prose, or elegant lisp), or your own illustration, and then feed the output back in again (with some fuzzing) along with the prompt, or a modified prompt, or a totally new prompt, after 2-3 generations the result becomes something that, although it undeniably integrates existing works in myriad ways, looks wholly unique and shaped by the user of the AI system more than by any of the individual contributing parts. I don't think this is terribly different from my creative process when I play music; I feel I have to work just as hard to avoid copping other peoples' stuff unconsciously.