Comment by fennecfoxy

>Humans create new, spontaneous thoughts I don't believe we do; just look to media, very few plot-lines in Movies/TV are little more than "boy meets girl Pocahontas".

And if you say that a model could not create anything new because of it's static data set but humans could...I disagree with that because us humans are working with a data set that we add to some days, but if we use the example of writing a TV script, the writer draw from their knowledge (gained thru life experience) that is as finite as a model's training set is.

I've made this sort of comment before. Even look to high fantasy; what are elves but humans with different ears? Goblins are just little humans with green skin. Dragons are just big lizards. Minotaurs are just humans but mixed with a bull. We basically create no new ideas - 99% of human "creativity" is just us riffing on things we know of that already exist.

I'd say the incidences of humans having a brand new thought or experience not rooted in something that already exists is very, very low.

Even just asking free chat gpt to make me a fantasy species with some culture and some images of the various things it described does pretty well; https://imgchest.com/p/lqyeapqkk7d. But it's all rooted in existing concepts, same as anything most humans would produce.