It’s a perfect illustration of the way these models work. They are fundamentally incapable of original creation and imagination, they can only regurgitate what they have already been fed.
That they can do more than simplfy recall is easily demonstrated.
Simply ask a GPT to explain a write a pleading to the Supreme Court for the constitutional recognition that the environment is a common owned inheritance and so any citizen can sue any polluter, in the prose of Dr. Seuss.
Likewise, imagines of knights in space demonstrate the same kind of creativity.
Being able to combine previously uncorrelated/unrelated topics, is an important type of creativity. And GPT4 does this all the time. It would be interesting to list the types of creativity and rate GPT on each one.
So it is not that these models are not creative. It is just that their creative abilities are not universal yet.
Similarly for the depth of their logic. They often reason, but their reasoning depth is limited.
And they often incorporate relevant facts without explicit mention, but not always. Etc.