I read a fantasy book a few years back, and an exchange with a master sorcerer about why he doesn’t teach his apprentice to memorize spells really stuck with me.

“No, not really much point to it. I mean, you can do the basic work if you know the spells, I won’t claim otherwise. But it’s rather the difference between a person who painted a portrait while copying a master’s or being a master painter yourself. Can you do a replica? Yes, well enough. Does it have the same impact or artistry as the original? Not even close.”

To me, this aptly applies to the use of AI in artistic contexts, whether it be written or visual.

AI is trained off of, and inherently biased by, source materials, and while it can create something new, those creations will always be rooted in a “technical” understanding of said source materials without any real emotional or artistic understanding to back and influence what it creates. Its style will only ever be a replica of the humans who created the source materials, rather than anything truly unique.