AI output is not unique and it doesn’t even come close to being creative. AI models would have never existed, and could never output anything of any value without training on datasets of actually unique, actually creative, human-made content.
Human art is absolutely not generative, at least not in the same sense of how AI output is generative. We don’t use the word “creative” because “it’s more human”, a crow can be creative but cannot be generative, an LLM cannot be creative and has to be generative. “Creative” and “Generative” are absolutely not synonyms.
A human is creative when they are not limited by the lack of resources, when they see or reflect aspects that usually get overlooked, or when they follow intuition or emotions and etc of human traits to create or solve something. A probabilistic binary software that is running on a deterministic machine is generative because it has absolutely no option but to be generative and to follow code, instructions, patterns, algorithms and formulas.
LLMs do not comprehend what they produce, they do not understand the world, and they do not have their own unique experiences to come up with anything that can even remotely be described as “unique” or “creative”.
LLMs are probabilistic, binary software that runs on deterministic machines, and they will forever be bound to the deterministic nature of the machines they run on. The only thing that makes AI output vary (when using the same prompt for example) is settings like “Temperature” which simply add different layers of “randomness” through formulas to the output, this does not make the output unique, let alone creative.
An AI model could never come up with their own unique style, it can only train on actually unique human-made content and predict and replicate existing styles. Even if someone tried to force it, even if someone wrote the most unique prompt to ever exist, an AI model would never know what it means and can only predict and replicate from the styles it was already trained on, it can only try to navigate to the nearest “vectors”, or simply find the closest thing to what the user is asking.
So no, AI models absolutely do not learn similar to how humans learn. Humans are not static, binary, inanimate objects.
Finally, I have never once met an artist who claimed their thoughts are 100% unique, every single artist I met, heard about or worked with ALWAYS had a specific inspiration from someone, something, a feeling, a dream, a place, even pain, suffering or loss inspire people to create unique things based on their specific unique human experience. The ONLY “artists” I heard make such a statement, that everything they produce is absolutely unique to them and is so unique it is now their new favorite “style”, were the so-called “AI artists”.
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