The OP never said that novel combinations are "interesting"... They claimed:
> Generative models can combine existing concepts in novel ways which have never been considered before.... So as long as an answer can be expressed as a combination of primitive concepts, LLMs can generate them.
You seem to be hung up on the "never been considered before" as if artists are incapable of combining those concepts when the more charitable interpretation of what the OP meant is "doesn't appear in the training data." Obviously they aren't omniscient and can't possibly know what people have ever imagined in the totality of existence, but we can empirically compare the novelty of generated images to the training inputs.
No one said anything negative about artists or their abilities. We're talking about the AI's abilities in a positive sense and that's the mechanistic ability to combine concepts in novel ways to generate images. Any art that springs from that is from the human using the AI as a tool.
> Generative models can combine existing concepts in novel ways which have never been considered before.... So as long as an answer can be expressed as a combination of primitive concepts, LLMs can generate them.
You seem to be hung up on the "never been considered before" as if artists are incapable of combining those concepts when the more charitable interpretation of what the OP meant is "doesn't appear in the training data." Obviously they aren't omniscient and can't possibly know what people have ever imagined in the totality of existence, but we can empirically compare the novelty of generated images to the training inputs.
No one said anything negative about artists or their abilities. We're talking about the AI's abilities in a positive sense and that's the mechanistic ability to combine concepts in novel ways to generate images. Any art that springs from that is from the human using the AI as a tool.