Comment by r2_pilot

What is wrong with using the style of an entity which by definition of being dead is beyond caring? Should we hold off in perpetuity, such that we not copy the style of Michaelangelo lest sensibilities be ruffled? What even is this platonic ideal form of one's "style"? Is this interpretation of the artist's work not a creative endeavor in itself? It didn't create itself de novo, after all. A human ultimately directed a machine to perform a task. If you want to really get down to how I feel about copyright in the age of AI, consider that a number can't be copyrighted in the US and yet any image file can ultimately be represented by a sufficiently large binary number. The creative spirit of the American people has been bottled up by corporations for far too long.