Equating the process of creating art with adding numbers together is a very HN answer. Unsurprising that so few people here see value in human expression, when their only concern is efficiently generating a minimum viable product as quickly as possible.

But... using a calculator doesn't make you a mathematician either. And one could argue that society has born real negative consequences from the inability of most people to do even basic math because of the ubiquity of calculators. There is a big difference between using a tool and having the tool do everything for you.

Do you really believe that society will benefit when most people don't know how to express themselves creatively in any way other than asking the magic box to make a pretty thing for them?

Calculators, abacuses etc are tools that let you do math easier than in your head. People have done original math on all sorts of things.

Generative AI forces us to reconsider what original means because it's producing a "remix" of what it has seen before with no credit going to those who created those original works.