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> However, generating text, audio, or images in the specific style of an individual creator seems like a slippery slope that ultimately deserves some kind of renumeration.

It never has before. Why now?

Someone (more commonly, some group) invents Impressionism, or Art Deco, or heavy metal, or gangsta rap, or acid-washed jeans, or buzz cuts and pretty soon there are dozens or hundreds of other people creating works in that style, none of whom are paying the originators a cent.