Edited from a sharply-insightful Comment by NLR at Francis Berger's blog:
There's plenty of reasons to disagree with this, but I want to discuss the assumptions associated with this view of creativity. The core distinction is that the assumptions of mechanistic creativity are false at a fundamental level.
The idea that the virtual world would become a world unto itself has been presented over and over again for decades, in both fiction and nonfiction.
And yet how can that be true when the virtual world takes everything it has from the real world?
What actually happened is that the virtual world has shrunk more and more over the years and so-called AI is just increasing this.
Since AI works by copying what's on the Internet, its products are a copy of a copy, creating a world of virtual virtuality.
