it copies nothing more

it's just remixes of things that already exist.

So it does do more than copying? Because as you said - it remixes.

It sounds like the line you're trying to draw is not only arbitrary, but you yourself can't even stick with it for more than one sentence.

Everything new is some unique combination of things that already exist, the elements it draws from are called sources and influences, and rules according to which they're remixed are called techniques/structures e.g. most movies are three acts, and many feature specific techniques like J-cuts.

Heck even re-arranging elements of just one thing is a unique and different thing, or is your favourite song and a remix of it literally the same? Or does the remix not have artistic value, even though someone out there probably likes the remix, but not the original?

I think your confusion stems from the fact you're a top shelf, grade-A Moron.

You're an organic, locally sourced and ethically produced idiot, and you need to learn how basic ML works, what "new" is, and glance at some basic epistemology and metaphysics before you lead us to ruin because you don't even understand what "new" entails, before your reactionary rhetoric leads us all down straight to cyberpunk dystopias.

Consider youtube poop, Im serious. Everyclip in them is sourced from preexisting audio and video, and mixed or distorted in a comedic format. You could make an AI to make youtube poops using those same clips and other "poops" as training data. What it outputs might be of lower quality, but in a technical sense it would be made in an identical fashion. And, to the chagrin of Disney, Nintendo, and Viacom, these are considered legally distinct entities; because I dont watch Frying Nemo in place of Finding Nemo. So why would it be any different when an AI makes it?

You just reiterate what other anti-ML extremists have said like a sad little parrot. No, LLMs don't just copy. They network information and associations and can output entirely new combinations of them. To do this, they make use of neural networks, which are computational concepts analogous to the way your brain works. If, according to you, LLMs just copy, then that's all that you do as well.

You can do the same thing with the Hardy Boys. You can find the same page word for word in different books. You can also do that with the Bible. The authors were plagiarizing each other.

It doesn’t add anything new to the sum total of the creative zeitgeist because it’s just remixes of things that already exist.

Do yourself a favor and never ever go into design of infrastructure equipment or eat at a Pizza Hut or get a drink from Starbucks or work for an American car company or be connected to Boeing.

Everyone has this super impressive view of human creativity and I am waiting to see any of it. As far as I can tell the less creative you are the more success you will have. But let me guess you ride a Segway, wear those shoes with toes, have gone through every recipe of Julia Childs, and compose novels that look like Finnegan's Wake got into a car crash with EE Cummings and Gravity's Rainbow.

Now leave me alone with I eat the same burger as everyone else and watch reruns of Family Guy in my house that looks like all the other ones on the street