Those who came before her. That’s the point everything is an expansion and growth on what came before. We are a sum of our lived experiences.
Where AI fails (and why I would happy to see it die when it comes to creative experience) is it lacks the context. AI will never come from a tough childhood. It will never experience slavery first hand. It will never experience love. It will never experience so much of what makes us alive be it good or bad.


You scream of a neck beard pontificating from their parents basement.
I will bite though. What I will tell you is yes, everything is plagiarism in some way. Copywrite laws need to die
Every generation is built off the ones that came before it we are all plagiarizing from what we have learned over time. Now you can either bury your head up your ass or can acknowledge we are all hypocrites and move forward from that knowledge.
Plagiarism is how we evolve. There’s a reason “plagiarism is the sincerest form of flattery” is an expression.