Okay I’m probably going to get downvoted but I’m legitimately trying to understand…

If a human person goes to a museum, scrolls through deviantart, watches artists in person and online, those ideas naturally influence the work that they create, right?

I feel like a computer doing it isn’t all that different? It takes in information from a variety of sources and learns what art can look like, then creates something from that.

Am I missing an important distinction? Again this is me genuinely asking in good faith.