Right—but why should “new ABS plastic” be the bar for creativity? If the kid builds a structure no one’s ever imagined, from an unimaginably large box of Lego, isn’t that still novel? Sure, it’s made from known parts—but so is language. So are most human ideas.
The demand for outputs that are provably untraceable to training data feels like asking for magic, not creativity. Even Gödel didn’t require “never seen before atoms” to demonstrate emergence.
Right—but why should “new ABS plastic” be the bar for creativity? If the kid builds a structure no one’s ever imagined, from an unimaginably large box of Lego, isn’t that still novel? Sure, it’s made from known parts—but so is language. So are most human ideas.
The demand for outputs that are provably untraceable to training data feels like asking for magic, not creativity. Even Gödel didn’t require “never seen before atoms” to demonstrate emergence.