It is, effectively, creating something new, even if it is a homage to the original. However, the more often a work appears in the training data, the more closely the underlying weights will allow the AI to reproduce the work. For books that are repeated often in the training data—like Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland—the AI can nearly reproduce it word for word. Similarly, art AIs are often trained on the most common images on the internet, so they produce good wedding photographs and pictures of celebrities as a result.
