AI Creativity Debate

This cluster centers on debates about whether AI and LLMs can achieve true creativity or merely remix and regurgitate human-generated data, contrasting it with human originality and intention.

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AI OP LLM OK ML youtube.com AND GPT E.g creativity creative ai humans human creation llm novelty trained generate

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tempodox Jun 25, 2023 View on HN

Only you, a human developer can be truly creative. An LLM can only ever reproduce what it has seen before.

maaku May 10, 2016 View on HN

You're assuming machines can't be creative.

rowanG077 Aug 5, 2025 View on HN

AI will not be able to generate everything for us. Just the things that are able to be explored by humans and hopefully a tad bit more. AI is already more creative than humans by a lot of measures.

j-a-a-p Oct 21, 2024 View on HN

Two thoughts, AI will enable more people to express their creativity. And wait for large self trained models appear. I mean, how different is that from learning Go? It is a matter of time and AI can generate original work.

cobbzilla Aug 16, 2025 View on HN

Absolutely! You can communicate with without (or with minimal) creativity. It’s not required in most cases. So AI is definitely very useful, and it can ape creativity better and better, but it will always be “faking it”.

GuB-42 May 18, 2021 View on HN

Humans do things for humans, an AI, no matter how powerful, is not a human mind. So a human may be required to make is more creative in a way that isn't alien.

CharlesW Apr 5, 2024 View on HN

To quote GPT-4, "AI's 'creativity' is more about remixing and reinterpreting the information it has been fed".I think the degree to which a person perceives human-like creativity from AI/LLMs is inversely proportional to their understanding of how they work. Here's a great video that can help demystify GPTs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjZofJX0v4M

xigoi Jun 4, 2022 View on HN

If your artwork can be generated by an AI, are you really creative?

SamPatt Dec 10, 2024 View on HN

It's a tool. The cleverness and artistry comes from the humans, not from the tools they use.The AI isn't creating the fresh ideas. People are.

What I mean is that the OP's prompt to the LLM is creative, not the LLM's output. The LLM's output just expounds on the human's prompt so the poem it generated is clearly not an example of creativity.