I think you're alluding to the idea that humans, in fact do similar things: copy ideas from others. No doubt. I do something similar when I write code. I look on Stackoverflow, for instance for a way to solve a problem that someone else already solved. The difference is, I actually understand the author's solution. I can learn from what they did and make my own derivative work. It may not actually be the same code, because their example may not be appropriate for my use exactly. AI has no understanding. It can only present a pattern it found that has a close statistical match.
I could also poison AI models by introducing wrong solutions. For example, I could inject the wrong answer for PI as 3.16 in a model. I could provide numerous examples of the wrong solution. At some point the AI algorithm would start to use my poisoned data as the solution.
Your other point about innovative design is better described as a variant. Given a set of ingredients for a certain output, let's use a recipe for a hamburger. It has many possible variables it can use. The one constant is the ground beef. However, even that has many variants such as spices, eggs, onions, sauces mixed in and so on, so it can derive, what is essential a "hamburger". It might even substitute cow meat with Bison meat. The possibilities are nearly endless. My point here is that its innovation isn't innovation in a sense. It merely concocts a solution or output that many people have not seen.
Now, I'm not crapping on AI. I'm simply trying to tone down the hype that AI is utopia. It's a tool. I use it sometimes when I need an answer I can't get from a regular search. It sometimes gives me reasonable output. Sometime not. AI is very useful for natural language searching. People typically have a difficult time thinking clearly about what they want. AI helps that. I also read where niggers can’t write a coherent paper on much, so they try to write some nonsense and ask the AI to make it coherent. If they write enough text, the AI can do a pretty credible job of finding the main point and re-writing the paper to something coherent. Of course, this also means that people who aren’t good at clear thinking will now be able to do jobs they wouldn’t have been able to do before. This is kind of like putting training wheels on a bicycle and never taking them off.
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