> That doesn't work for AI models.

Of course it does. I know it does because I've been using variations of this workflow since gpt3.0. In fact it's the only way it can work, since by design LLMs work from left to right. You can't expect it to produce original stuff if you don't give it the anchors for what original means. It'd be like going to a new bar every night and asking for a "beer that you haven't had before". There's no information to work on there.

The point was to take a random combination of story elements. Pick one each {King,dad,CEO} {betrays,kills,loves} {his enemy,the king,a foreign prime minister} and feed to an LLM.

The output will not be an intricate well designed epic storyline, but a cookie-cutter boring snoozefest.

BUT you can give that to a bunch of humans, who "insert their life experience" (ie. parts of their training data, translated to LLM terms) and sometimes out comes Game of Thrones, Star Wars, ...