@pettter @whvholst @rysiek I think we all agree on that. I just don't see how statistical pattern-matching is any different from what brains do. Dismissing the demonstrated capabilities of AI on grounds that there's no "consciousness" involved, seems to miss the point that the AI isn't plagiarizing anyone or copying, it's creating new works by, as it were, hallucinating from its dataset. That's not copyright-infringing.
Pretty sure everyone in this thread understands that such language is figurative in the case of current AI.