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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Misanthrope Prime" data-source="post: 9874736" data-attributes="member: 6776166">The individual human did not create the language they write in, nor did they create the literary metaphors that exist in culture, our associations with concepts, nor expectations for plot structure. Hell, the format of the "novel" or "short story" or "novella" themselves were not created by any one man, but by aggregating the artistic memes of everyone who came before them.Considering that a quote from Carl Sagan was used in that NYT game, let me bring up another one; "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe." Art in the 21st century is not an act of creation, it's an act of bricolage, even before LLMs became commercially available.All art is regurgitative and iterative; it's all just smashing together ideas and memes until enough people feel an emotional response and start telling eachother about it.</blockquote>