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Are these specific characters drawn by Afrobull? If so, then you could say that it's plagiarism. On the contrary, using a way of drawing (it doesn't matter who was previously used it) is not plagiarism, it's like saying that using a writing technique is plagiarizing others who used it before.I have no clue how you can't see it. Literally the first thing I thought when I saw the banner for this game was "Is this AI afrobull?"
And creating art of existing characters has nothing to with an artist's artstyle. You can find 1000 of images of Mickey Mouse on the internet and clearly see the difference between each of them, and probably also recognize which known artists have drawn which versions. Afrobulls style is quite unique. I know of another artist out there who has a similar style to afrobull's but I can still tell that the other artist has taken inspiration from afrobull and is not just straight up copying them. This AI is not taking inspiration from Afrobull. This AI is just trained to replicate afrobull's artstyle
For example, if I try to write a piece the way Arturo Pérez Reberte writes it, I would not be plagiarizing him (in fact the crime would be passing it off as the writer's original), if, on the contrary, I take a series of his articles and I write one taking fragments of them to pass it off as my writing, then it would be plagiarism.