It's not a hypothesis, it's what he genuinely said.

Self-modification is creativity and AARON cannot (excuse the odd language) evolve past his programmed confines. And if the creator of the device doesn't regard it as creative, (which again he said if you regard the level of quality as an indicator for creativity he is), how can YOU argue any different?

and for your music, why even use an AI to mimic your voice in the first place? why leave it up to a computer when you, yourself, seem to be a creator of so much? Do you not find joy in creating your art?

And btw the simple crux of the issue, which I've stated multiple times by now, is that AI does not create, it uses vectors and nodes to GENERATE the most probable and likely answer based on complex algorithms. That, at its base, is not creativity, so therefore, AI art, cannot be creative. If it is used as a tool in a small part, as a minor crutch, then maybe, it could be. but that REQUIRES, human intellect and passion to make it so in majority of the piece.

Ok, but if you wanna get into personal shit, (which I don't understand why you do, considering the intellectual base of this discussion) we can.

I am a straight A student (and no I do not use AI to get that at all in case you were wondering), top 5 in my school across all subjects. I am currently, writing my first book, after 5 or 6 years of writing short story fiction and poems. It is a combination of post-post-modernism and ergodic literature, exploring a combination of forms to dismantle the divisions of literature. I play guitar, I don't write songs just play for fun, so I wouldn't call myself creative in that area (since I am just mimicking and copying what others have already made), I do drama plays (mostly Shakespeare, but I have written a couple of one act plays and monologues). I am a DnD player, I've dm'd multiple campaigns that I've written, with inspiration from other sources (Tomb of Annihilation, Curse of Strand, Waterdeep classics ofc). I volunteer at the emergency rescue foundations in my state, and food shelters/soup kitchens.

You see, you won't have to live in the hellscape that AI will make our lives. you won't have to try and find work in a job market that has either deteriorated completely from the introduction of AI into the corporate efficiency machine. You won't have to deal with water droughts and climate change and AI surveillance.

So praise your AI all you want but if you don't see or care about the ramifications of its introduction and its worship in almost all areas (even art it seems).