No one knows exactly how AIs work. It's an active area of research, you can go and look the papers up. This statement here: > Which is all to say, if an AI do

No one knows exactly how AIs work. It's an active area of research, you can go and look the papers up. This statement here: > Which is all to say, if an AI doesn't have a reference for a particular artists' method of doing a specific paint stroke, it can never create that paint stroke. This is unsupported at best. You don't know. Pre-eminent experts in the field don't know. But this is simply a restatement of the weird "it just interpolates" fallacy people constantly spout about AI, which isn't even true of simple mathematical interpolation A simple example: finding a way to interpolate between points (1,1) and (2,4) would be something like y = 2x. Fairly obviously, that equation will easily tell you how to work outside that range, the distinction is you don't have any more data to verify if this is real. Replace the point geometry with the abstract "paint stroke" algorithm, and an AI model can do exactly the same thing.