They've no more "reproduced" his copyrighted content, than a student studying photography or other art did, when they saw the picture online and made a mental note to imitate aspects of what they thought made the content interesting. That's the cold, hard reality of the situation. At least, that's how I would argue it as the defense lawyer.

People don't seem to be getting quite yet what 'artificial intelligence' intrinsically really means.

But they will.