The speed doesn't factor into it. Modern machines can stamp out metal parts vastly faster than blacksmiths with a hammer and anvil can, are those machines doing something wrong?

Speed aside, machines don't have the same rights as humans do, so the idea that they are "learning like a person so it's fine" is like saying a photocopier machine's output ought to be treated as an independent work because it replicated some other work, and it's just so good and fast at it. AI's may not output identical work, but they still rely on taking an artist's work as input, something the creator ought to have a say over.

But that's not what they did, converting it into a set of instructions a computer can use to recreate it is just adding steps.

And, yes, that's what they've done else we wouldn't find pieces of others works mixed in.

Also, even if that was how it worked, it's still theft of someone's else's labor to feed your business.

If it wasn't, they would have asked for permission first.

I think my initial reply to you was meant to go somewhere else but Connect keeps dropping me to the bottom of the thread instead of where the reply I'm trying to get to is.

I'm going to leave it (for consistency sake) but I don't think it makes much sense as a reply to your post.

Sorry about that!