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  Still not art theft. It has never been theft to draw/paint in someone else's style.
context: It's simpler than that. Mixing an image with data from hundreds of thousands of others is sufficient alteration to get around any sane copyright law, and the provision of a text prompt and refinement of the image through onboard tools and image editing software qualifies as a form of authorship. >
  
  Very interesting, if that’s true then art theft would be difficult to prove in these cases. May I ask where you found this is to be true by providing a source? >
  
  Of course art theft will be impossible to prove as long as the output is sufficiently different from any originals. >
  
  Yep you might be right. I guess the exception to this is when prompting an AI to generate art in a certain artist’s style, e.g., Van Gogh