They don't have the mechanical means, yes, but they decide what to create so it'd be the latter, not sure why you think it's not; the AI isn't independently coming up with ideas and generating the media. Plus with ComfyUI, I'd say there's some of the former too, similar to how music producers aren't literally playing each instrument that's simulated in their software, but they do assemble it together.

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Freak_NL 6 days ago | parent [-]

Creativity is more than just deciding that you want 'a space opera, but with an order of knights who yield swords that glow, bad guy looks like a Japanese samurai, reimagined in a 1970s futuristic style.'

Creativity is not just having the idea, it's bearing that to fruition in you own manner (or that of a group of people). Gen-AI outsources the 'creativity' needed to get what it generates. The prompt wrangler provides only the prompt; the rest is drawn from the training data.

	▲	petralithic 6 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Are collages creative? What and is ones "own manner?" Does it require using one's bare hands, or do computers count? Does Photoshop count? There is nothing fundamentally different, 20 years ago people were harping over the Adobe suite too. The way people are using gen AI is way more creative than typing in a prompt, and it is no different than electronic music producers, it's an arrangement of discrete elements they do not necessarily produce themselves.
	▲	ourmandave 6 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Maybe AI can make all the low budget copy cat movies that blockbusters generate. https://www.ign.com/articles/star-wars-rip-offs