I disagree, you can see signatures and figures drawn by individual artists in even the largest models of today. Also, only a fraction are what you specified

Though trillions may be used, only billions are of dragons, millions of clocks, and thousands of something more specific

I work in the AI field specializing in vectorizatiom, creating automated systems to catch failures, and it’s clear to me what gets imprinted onto the nodes is just other peoples work. The line-work, colouration, composition, etc. on a particular output will be from a tiny fraction of the models training and will be, individually per addition or edit, directly taken from a handful of images.

This is why you can get text based or code based AI to word for word output some of their trained work. Same with image based, though only pieces again.

All the actual decision making, the colouration, the composition, line-work, perspective, base stylistic choice, etc. will be made by another person or people before being detected by the AI and output when the correct input (prompt) is given.

To be clear, If I had called pokemon fish whenever you put in the word fish something stylistically pokemon would be output with nothing to do with fish. It’s not learning what our prompt actually means just what gets it a head pat from the dev.

It’s not just learning what a word means and outputting a new image, it’s finding a way to output the origional data in a way that makes somebody like me, an AI dev, say “yeah that’s about right”. That’s all

Once more, because each time I stare I hate AI I get misinterpreted, I hate that it’s taking without permission. If that is granted then it’s perfectly moral.