I agree, and also reference the (western) music world, where sequences of the same (12) note frequencies are borrowed and interbred with one-another in an endle

I agree, and also reference the (western) music world, where sequences of the same (12) note frequencies are borrowed and interbred with one-another in an endless self-referencing repertoire of "unique content". Perhaps one difference - of arguable validity - between human and AI content creation is the way a digital system can in theory be step-by-step debugged to forensically inspect at the lowest level exactly which parts of what prior content have been referenced, or altered, and how, at each step of the program iteration. (much more difficult to do, with we analog humans! - we must mostly rely upon inspection of the outputs, there)