[frant-hartm]

Can you provide some examples where LM creates something novel, which is not just a rehash or combination of existing things?

Especially considering how hard it is for humans to create something new, e.g in literature - basically all stories have been written and new ones just copy the existing ones in one way or another.

[gojomo]

What kind of novel thing would convince you, given that you're also dismissing most human creation as mere remixes/rehashes?

Attempts to objectively rate LLM creativity are finding leading systems more creative than average humans: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-40858-3

Have you tried leading models – say, GPT4 for text or code generation, Midjourney for images?

[IshKebab]

For any example we give you will just say "that's not novel, it's just a mix of existing ideas".