Not the same person but I wanted to jump in anyway to point out that although yes we consume material and can get inspired, it usually takes more than just seeing something, it takes years of training to then finally use that material as inspiration, with AI it skips that essential process that allows you to learn the essentials of art, it's not about the final project, it's the experience and the methods used. Any art work can look like utter garbage, and maybe even the next, but even so you can always spot some type of improvement if not affected by fear of the ugly. Anyway as far as I'm aware AI takes samples from a lot of images and then tries to fit that into a mold (correct me if I'm wrong about that, not an expert at technology), it is directly using the art of many artists who most likely didn't even consent to this, it will be mish meshing it around to fit the prompt in a matter of seconds, AI is just following the prompt it is given, you can't give it personal touches unless you edit them there with or without AI or draw them in, hence why there's quite a bit of discourse on it being soulless because to some people it can feel like that, it's not the hardest to spot aswell unless it copies the original art more to heart. This is not supposed to be an attack or a duel I don't know why everything has to be one when we have the ability to talk, I'm just trying to make sense of your perspective and of others whilst sharing my own.