I understand that the individual AI generated elements can’t be copyrighted, but in this case the final product is a huge amount more than that. It’s a collage

I understand that the individual AI generated elements can’t be copyrighted, but in this case the final product is a huge amount more than that. It’s a collage of such elements, plus cropping, filtering, colour grading, composition in the page and overlay with speech bubbles and such. It seems to me that the end result should be copyrightable. Then the fact the original elements aren’t covered isn’t a problem. You just delete them.