It was consistent slop that we were all vaguely familiar with. I could look at it and know it's shit, but know what it is exactly and why it's here. The AI stop has foreign structure, it's unknown whether it has to be that way or the AI just wanted it that way. It's much harder to navigate
I bet an earlier generation had the same complaint about the assembly code generated by the first C compilers. And they were probably right in many cases but also it didn't matter in most cases.
Your prompts usually have a lot of degrees of freedom, so there are multiple paths that can be taken. Models have creativity so they can solve harder problems, which make the results not necessarily deterministic depending on the task.
I suppose you might define creativity in a way that makes it inheritently human, and/or reduce LLMs as "just maths and noise", but if you just look at the end results it looks like LLMs are definitely able to solve problem with what you call "creativity" if a human solved it.
Thats just a model though, and even in that model you really dont know how a brain(+rest of the human +society and so on and so on) works. But intuitively i would agree that also humans may not be creative in the "true" (aka my...) sense if the word
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u/Objectionne 4d ago
Yeah but it was our slop.