[madsmith]

Except that generative AI is actually generative. It isn’t recreating a work by shape and line and form. It is using the knowledge gained from studying many works to determine when given a random pixel, what color pixel should it and its neighbors transform into to best fit the requested parameters.

Stable Diffusion starts with random noise and attempts to denoise that random information into a coherent picture. That it has in the past learned that certain types of pictures should have say something resembling a watermark is just it being incredibly dumb but ultimately no different than it learning that horses should have something resembling manes or people’s hands having something resembling fingers.

[freejazz]

You are just wordsmithing around the value of, in this case, the orange stencil-work, when you say "AI is actually generative"