@rst yes. for humans we presume there is a ghost in the machine: what we create is “ours”, not just merely derivative of what we may have seen. so far, though, for generative AI courts have said there is no ghost, no author beyond transformation of the inputs. copyright can’t be enforced on generative AI images, because there is no author. there is no one whose “fair use” can disencumber inputs, perhaps even very glancing inputs.