Are you asking if it is okay for humans to plagiarize or otherwise violate copyright? For both the human and the algorithm, the answer is: it depends. Yes?
Are you trying to make money off of it? Is it for personal use? Was it protected or public domain?
It just all depends on the circumstances. Human or not.
“It depends on the circumstances” seems to me like cover for “we made up some random rules that made sense at the time”.
If you cover a song on YouTube, you can apparently be demonetised or attract copyright strikes from the original artist. But in software, you tell me an algorithm and I code it up, that’s an original work.
Oh, I used to be a lawyer. "It depends" is just always the answer, whether we like it or not. And, yes, it is pretty much because of “we made up some random rules that made sense at the time”.
Are you trying to make money off of it? Is it for personal use? Was it protected or public domain?
It just all depends on the circumstances. Human or not.