[krapp]

To use an example from the article, no matter how often you tell a LLM to "create a jazz composition in the style of John Coltrane" you will never be able to play jazz like him. You aren't learning new abilities. You aren't becoming more creative or expanding your capabilities. It's an illusion.

It absolutely does matter, if we're talking about creativity, whether you are doing the thing or whether the machine is doing it for you. The former is art, the latter is extruded artlike product - literally anyone with the same model and the same prompt and seed can generate the same thing. That isn't creativity, and it isn't a part of you. Knowing what list of artists to add to your prompt doesn't confer their talent onto you.

If you want to use LLMs, fine. Just accept it for what it is - a shortcut. You aren't a coder, the machine is a coder. You aren't a musician, the machine is a musician. You aren't an artist, the machine is an artist. You're just a consumer putting in an order.