RE: AI slop and the death of Art

No, and by extension, paradoxically, a LLM is still a tool - a generative model is a tool, but that tool has distinct, perfectly reproducible outputs given the same staring conditions.

Prompt + Trained Model + Random Seed = Same outcome. Always. It is a mathematical surety.

Our human "random seeds" have much more fuziness. Stuff that we cannot encapsulate through words, reduced to tokens and a long integer.

On the determinism of AI outputs: I suppose the same thing can be said of a guitar with standard tuning, an identical plectrum and the same velocity of hand upon the region of open string.