About whether AI imitating an artist's style is comparable to human artists studying it.
Has this happened?
Yes 50 (43%)Not sure 35 (30%)No 32 (27%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About whether AI imitating an artist's style is comparable to human artists studying it.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
AI is none of that.
How do we know? We can do art Turing Test - have 3 real artists and an text/image generation AI train on somebody's art. Have it generate the images and answer questions about the art.
If you can't tell which one of them is AI - would you conceed they are "all of that"?