Buddy of mine sent me a message the other day saying he was bored playing with an AI image generator. And attached this picture saying it was very relevant to my interests! (Ghostbusters and all things Japanese)
It’s not so much “how close as copyright allows”, as those image generators don’t show any interest in if something’s copyrighted, it’s more “how close the generator can bash a bunch of images together that vaguely matches the text prompts it was given”.