there's "literally what human does (and that's why it's fine for AI to peruse all of your data, don't even question it lol)" (which is bullshit. cute for a sale

there's "literally what human does (and that's why it's fine for AI to peruse all of your data, don't even question it lol)" (which is bullshit. cute for a sales pitch, but it will always fundamentally be bullshit), and then there are actual ways program work. and these two are pretty much disconnected, no matter how many 'analogies and parallels' are attempted to be drawn. we're not computers, and computers are not humans. if a person were to "do these steps" and "do creativity" in that way - as in, "downloading something" and doing a bunch of quantifiable, traceable operations, as part of their process - well, shit, that's still gonna be just the computer part of it. not 'human creativity' part. still. if there was that 'human creativity' in the loop of 'downloading and perusing a bunch of IP in a traceable way', it's the latter that would be questionable - and useable, for questioning of, for investigation, for lawyers. and unfortunately, computers and their "creativity" work pretty much entirely in that "quantifiable and traceable" way. the 'human creativity' could be chalked up to 'well i don't know'. 'program "creativity"' - very definite 'an executable did this and this, and spit this out'. and if it reproduces well, 'here's a memory snapshot, a complete step-by-step of the process'. can't do that with brains. very doable for software. it could be just a bunch of incomprehensible stuff, but it'd still be a complete byte dump. "it would purely be the study of the physical world" - well, it's still a very much existing option. would it make a difference if that was 'the only option available' or just 'one of the ways'? and AI studies the real world as well, through photographs, and 3d scans, and so on. art is influenced, and those aspects can be pointed out across artists, with some artists readily admitting, 'oh, I was inspired by so-and-so'. people do all kinds of shit with art, and get told off or even sued. art can be forged, with people making something in style and trying to pass it as a work of different artist and sell it. which can be a crime. is that surprising? and AI services try to sell their outputs as well.