But what is this idea the human is realizing? With most tools, it's an indescribable essence of a work that, even if you could extract it from the author's mind at that point, would be different from the end result—not because it's divorced from its platonic form, but because the labor itself develops it.

These generators are creative Speakwrites that strip that element of thought, only padding out a short core description with cliché. The resulting work doesn't have any layers of subtext or intentionality; it can be fully summarized by its prompt.

And the thousands of other unpaid humans who came up with the ideas and creative content in the training data.