"Copies Copies of Copies" is my personal protest of artificial intelligence (AI)-mediated image generation. Extracting jpg files from ImageNet, the foundational image database used to train AI, I paint – slowly copying a copy of a copy – all 4,096 pixels of selected 64x64 pixel digital photographs from the database. These paintings highlight the imperfect nature of what and how AI learns to 'see', and the labor-intensive process serves as a critique of the facile immediacy of AI image generators. In the age of the instant image generated by AI, I paint slowly.