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The notion that generating something "in the style of" a human creator is a violation of copyright is categorically false. Copyright is only infringed when a work is substantially copied. Generating something new but with a similar feel is fair game. That OUGHT to be (but, obnoxiously, seems not to be) universally uncontroversial.

Human creators might bristle and find it distasteful to have works automatically generated in a style they spent a long time honing, but it is most certainly not a violation of copyright.



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