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> They are really mostly copying whatever they were trained on, but on a scale that it appears indistinguishable from intelligent creation.

Which is what most humans do, and what most humans need.

>>nether+(OP)
And everything else is just copying with either small tweaks or combinations. There’s a reason art went through large jumps in understanding from cave paintings to where we are today.

I was the first photographer I knew of that combined astrophotography with wedding portraiture. That was new. Now lots of people do it - far better than me (I rarely get the chance)!

I’m a small fry so they almost assuredly didn’t get the idea from me, before anyone says I claim otherwise. There were probably a few photographers who thought to do it and now everybody has seen it and emulates it. The true artists put just a little spin on it, from which others will learn. So it goes.