Also thanks for not calling it "generative AI" - it has been driving me crazy how this term seemingly became the agreed norm to describe the tech over the past month or so. Not only is it not accurate it's also tautological/redundant?!

+ while most of the attention has been on the disruptions of a more economic nature and primarily centered - or actively centering I have to say - copyright and an indistinct universal notion of style, there are many really interesting questions with ethical implications that go beyond the arts here

I would qualify this case as closer to the realm of forgery than to that of influence. Regardless, the introduction of ML models in the artworld raises a lot of urgent questions about the normative roles of authorship and authenticity, especially in the context of its economic functioning.