> an artist for a generated picture Normally - outside the specific context of AI generated art -, there is not a relation "work¹ → past author" , but "work →

> an artist for a generated picture Normally - outside the specific context of AI generated art -, there is not a relation "work¹ → past author" , but "work → large amount of past experience". (¹"work": in the sense of product, output etc.) If the generative AI is badly programmed, it will copy the style of Smith. If properly programmed, it will "take into account" the style of Smith. There is a difference between learning and copying. Your tool can copy - if you do it properly, it can learn. All artists work in a way "post consideration of a finite number of past artists in their training set".