That's almost the same. You could say it's being creative by not following directions.
Creativity isn't well-defined. If you generate things at random, they are all unique. If you then filter them to remove all the bad output, the result could be just as "creative" as anything someone could write. (In principle. In practice, it's not that easy.)
And that's how evolution works. Many organisms have very "creative" designs. Filtering at scale, over a long enough period of time, is very powerful.
Generative models are sort of like that in that they often use a random number generator as input, and they could generate thousands of possible outputs. So it's not clear why this couldn't be just as creative as anything else, in principle.
The filtering step is often not that good, though. Sometimes it's done manually, and we call that cherry-picking.
Creativity isn't well-defined. If you generate things at random, they are all unique. If you then filter them to remove all the bad output, the result could be just as "creative" as anything someone could write. (In principle. In practice, it's not that easy.)
And that's how evolution works. Many organisms have very "creative" designs. Filtering at scale, over a long enough period of time, is very powerful.
Generative models are sort of like that in that they often use a random number generator as input, and they could generate thousands of possible outputs. So it's not clear why this couldn't be just as creative as anything else, in principle.
The filtering step is often not that good, though. Sometimes it's done manually, and we call that cherry-picking.