I know you think you know how Machine Learning works but I'm a computer scientist and have studied it and have had a software company since the 80's. I use AI/ML every day for medical software purposes. I write generative art programs and have been in major art exhibits in New York and Paris and I know a bit about art. Of course it's not technically a "mashup" but the point is it was TRAINED on ACTUAL art images. You know it is. Admit it.

I run software on my machines too but that doesn't mean I wrote the code. That's hilarious. So you are telling me it doesn't need all those art images to train the AI to create the ML Model? OK, cool, you know more than me and I'll stop making software now. Of course it does, so in an ABSTRACT sense, it is drawing from those billions of art images (and dollars) to mashup/synthesize new images. Why does it still have the original signature "shadows" or you think those are just magical cool AI sense of humor at work.

You sound like a defensive man of unspecified age who hasn't exactly explained how ML or AI works but you do have it on your computer. You are more interested in putting me down than recognizing any of the valid points I made. You seem like a highly qualified end user to me but maybe you are the author of DALL-E in which case hats off! Awesome! Nothing wrong with using your own generative creation. That's highly artistic activity.