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I'm getting pretty rambly but I think this is really a crux issue:

Derivative work has generally been fine in art because human artists are fairly transparent and supportive of other artists.

"Wow, I love your landscapes. Who are you inspired by?" is something you can ask a human artist, and likely get a response. This keeps art very transparent. I think what's so bothersome about AI art is that it produces end products (paintings) but nothing else. To me, visual art is much more than just a JPEG you look at. But maybe to other people it's just that? Idk

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I don't think artists can be transparent about their influences, because their influences include literally everything they have ever seen in their life.  Ask an artist about their influences and you'll get a curated list of highly skilled, well known artists whom the artist sees as role models.  You won't find the anonymous architect of the house that the artist decided to draw.  You won't find the photo in the magazine the artist read twenty years ago which somehow contained the perfect pose.  You won't find the exotic dancer who taught the artist about how the human body moves.  You certainly won't find the lifetime of bad art the artist has seen that told them how not to draw.  Even if the artists wants to mention all of them, it's unlikely that the artist ever knew more than a few of their names, and they probably don't remember most of them at all.

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I stopped writing music, because I couldn't move beyond subconsciously recycling tunes. I now cover the the very few songs I find meaningful. I'm much happier.