AI will never create something new.
Although, it might appear to be by accident.
There are tons of art ideas i have that i count the time and resources to build, and never get to it.
With the help of AI as a tool, i might do them.
What most people do not know is the bleeding edge of reality creation.
Most people are quite a few steps away from it.
There are people out there making really new music. So new that the common person finds it annoying. Not pleasant to listen to. An AI can not do this.
Then, more musicians start picking up on the ideas of the new music and start working it into their songs.
And lastly, it is on the top 20 radio station.
At that point, the AI can make a pretty decent copy.... modified copy
I deal with many people who are on the bleeding edge or reality creation.
For these people, AI is not even a good tool.
However, i also know many people who design web pages, and except for getting color themes right, and having a new set of photos, everything is just repetition.
AI could be a tool in the context of perhaps having to perform some kind of relatively time consuming and laborious and repetitive process where the objective is that AI can do a "decent" in a fraction of the time it would take a human. Perhaps like designing certain types of web pages.
But you're right, AI will not create anything new because it has to get its information from something that already exists in order to "create" something.
Things like turn photograph into pencil drawing... those are all AI tools.
And of course, doing that with a click is so much easier... and actually worth the time.
Doing it by hand makes it a labor of love... if every you wanted to do it.
And now, they can paint water, waves and such.
But, this really a help when you want to make a particular picture.
But, but, it also means that what we used to consider art, and was painstakingly done, is now a click.
"Certified Human Creation."
Since we have NFTs, perhaps we need to come up with an acronym for art that is entirely human-created.
I just bought in NFT of a CHC! I'm gonna be rich!