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I’m no defender of AI, but this is a bad argument. We are neurologically wired to detect patterns. It’s how experience works. Intuition. Differential diagnoses.
There’s a decent body of research within Cognitive Science on creativity. Ideas don’t burst into existence from nothing, they develop. The statement that everything is derivative speaks from reality, not just angst. Artists themselves hang out together. The French Impressionists. Hemingway and his peers. Their communities are about more than just not being lonely. Oppenheimer anyone? Scientists think tank for a reason.
Here’s one article to my point: https://pulpfest.com/2022/07/11/influence-or-coincidence-hemingways-fiction-and-hammetts-hardboiled-pulp-2/
Yeah, it's an uncomfortable thing to admit, but we don't actually know if it's true that "real" intelligence works fundamentally differently than modern ML techniques. The argument that generative AI isn't "real" creativity could still turn out to be cope.