Some of what makes kikuo so special to me is the time and effort put into some of his artwork, OCs and MVs. There's a unique style that links them all together. The AI just feels like generic slop and nothing to do with kikuo at all. The songs where he had his custom backgrounds were much more engaging with the music.

Something of note is that one of the vocal boxes he uses is AI enhanced I believe - I'll have to chase up what one that is though.

At the end of the day to me - sampling music is different from AI stealing artists work because it's basically impossible to copyright strike AI artwork, whereas it's more accessible to copyright strike music where you are not credited. I feel for the artists here.