I have and I wrote extensively about it after seeing the unpopularity of my original comment. There's a link to my long Medium story about it in another comment

I have and I wrote extensively about it after seeing the unpopularity of my original comment. There's a link to my long Medium story about it in another comment. Would I say that DALL-E, etc. also piece together existing images? Yes, of course, since that is the only way that technically it could work. All of computing is "input-process-output." There is no "create" step in any of computing. The pieces that DALL-E pieces together are pixels of a certain color and brightness and placement relative to other pixels. Together, we perceive this as an image. If they weren't arranged that way, we'd just see noise or gray. The same is true with ChatGPT. Unless they're put in a particular order, words just make word salad. It is the order that gives them their perceived meaning in a sentence. ChatGPT crafts "new" sentences by rearranging words from similar sentences it has already seen, just like DALL-E creates new paintings by rearranging pixels from paintings it has already seen. A recent video from Noam Chomsky explains this from his perspectives on learning and language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBdZi_JtV4c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBdZi_JtV4c