Further, "style" isn't copyrightable or sellable.

Artists don't sell a style, they sell artwork.

I just think it's wild that the entire human art scene is allowed to blatantly rip each other off (all pop sounds the same, all anime looks the same, all comic books look the same, etc etc) and it's OK, but the second that a computer does it, it's the most horrifying crime against art in history.

I think the fascinating part to me will be when AI is good enough to pick apart human art and point out all the thefts. "You stole this chord, these lyrics are basically ripped from here" "Your style is 98% this artist and you've only really change two elements" etc.

Artists hide behind their influences and it's going to be a new world when a computer can ascertain every single reference that was stolen, going to be a lot of interesting law suits.

Eg Grimes sees it this way, anyone else? It’s very surprising to me this isn’t a dialectic within the global community of artists. It points to me as a sign that perhaps art has become so intertwined with commercial and financial interests the latent mental models artists have of art have shifted over time, broadly speaking, away from art for art’s sake or art to speak.