The problem of reducing AI to a tool is that your hammer has no intelligence. There are more complex tools, you might consider your computer a tool, once again

The problem of reducing AI to a tool is that your hammer has no intelligence. There are more complex tools, you might consider your computer a tool, once again it doesn't have intelligence albeit it can achieve very complex tasks. I think that your example of "you have an LLM generate a sequence of angles and velocities with which to shake the brush" is copywritable. In that sense you used it as a tool, as you would use a RNG. But if instead the LLM created the whole outcome, then it shouldn't be copywritable. PS: I use the term "intelligence" loosely here for the sake of the argument