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by wild_egg 5 days ago
Ah, I see the goal posts shifted. I thought the topic was whether an AI could "give you something truly original in the way many high-quality fictional stories are." Which was then followed by the idea that you cannot have "truly original" outputs unless you also have the corresponding original experiences.

Implication is that virtually none of the novels ever written which include wars are actually original works, since vanishingly few novelists have been in active wars.

Maybe originality just doesn't mean much then?