@Gargron
My hot take on this is that AI is only blatantly imitating because it hasn't been exposed to enough yet. Human creative process isn't all that different from AI: copy, combine, and transform. People have an entire lifetime of experiences and exposure to draw influences from. The more we limit what AI can train from the more it will devolve into simple copies with simple combinations and simple transformations. Thinking human minds have some inherently creative super powers ignores that we are all influenced by the world around us. Life is our training model from birth to death. If a person only ever heard rap music they might make a song that also sounds like rap music rather than jumping to something more like pop or country that had never been heard by them before. People have the same creative limitations as AI.