AI and Philosophy: Can a Machine Have a Style?

Does an AI have an artistic style, or does it just copy the styles it was trained on? Philosophy is struggling to define what style means in the age of algorithms.

I argue that style requires intentionality—a conscious choice to deviate from the norm to express something. AI has no consciousness, so its "style" is just a statistical average.

But as these systems become more complex, the line is blurring. If an AI consistently produces works with a specific aesthetic that was not explicitly programmed, is that not a style?