No, sorry, I don't buy this assertion when it comes up. Everything I've seen, even from the most advanced image generators, has struck me as a logical follow-on from the "big data" trends of the 2010s. If you've ingested literally everything of a certain data type available on the internet, or even a significant fraction of it, it follows that you'd eventually be able to mix it all together and produce randomized outputs that seem novel.
It also elides the significant encoding of human feedback, a contribution that AI firms have typically been none-too-eager to highlight.
It also elides the significant encoding of human feedback, a contribution that AI firms have typically been none-too-eager to highlight.