But, like Guitar Hero, no outside creative skill has been acquired or developed. Every result is self-contained within the domain of a program whose owners have their own goals and agenda, and to whom nearly every benefit accrues. Material generated by “AI” can’t be owned by the prompter if it is purely generated by the “AI,” and even partial “AI” generation in a work raises legal concerns regarding rights and ownership. In a very real sense “AI” can’t even be directly controlled — prompting is an interface with the underlying weights and algorithms of the “AI,” chosen and directed by others. The more granular the prompting, the more the underlying “AI” can use its weights and algorithms to fulfill the request, but at the end of the day, you still get what you get. If it’s not exactly what you wanted you have to hope another prompt will get it closer. You keep pressing the button on the automated pancake maker, hoping it will make exactly the pancake you want.
Source: Generative “AI”: The Guitar Hero of Creativity | Whatever