Yeah, I know. I got a bit carried away there. These kinds of things are just so much fun to think about! :D

I’m not disputing that human brains can derive new ideas independently, just saying that they do it in a way similar to large language models.

The human though process constantly loops back on itself, essentially creating its own prompts, and we have the means to evaluate the outcomes and determine it’s value to us. We can also feel something about it, which, of course, a language model can’t.

A tool like ChatGPT is essentially a brain expansion addon. Our brains only have so much capacity for information, and learning new information take a lot of work. Now we can outsource some of that, and we can still evaluate and feel our way to an end result, just as we would when it came from our own brain.

So I would argue that human interaction with ChatGPT still produces a creative outcome. One could argue that it is a less personal one, but depending on the situation that doesn’t necessarily matter.

> It's combing available data and making matches based on prompts and feedback.

Again, essentially what brains does. The brain actually spoofs itself into believing that you where the one who came up with the idea or thought. But actually it’s an autonomic process that happens well before you are aware of the outcome.

I mean, that how humans come up with ideas too. That’s not to say that ChatGPT is “creative”, but the way it comes up with answers is not entirely dissimilar to how humans does it. Technically speaking.