> “Computers can never show creativity or originality”. But—perhaps disappointingly—that’s surprisingly easy to get, and indeed just a bit of randomness “seeding” a computation can often do a pretty good job,

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This is, I think, not what people mean when they say "creative" or "original".

Creativity is not simply writing something nobody has written before, as he said, that would be trivial and doesn't even require a computer, you could just shuffle a deck of cards and write out the full sequence and chances are no other person in history has written down that sequence before.

And I think Borges made a reasonable argument that simply writing down the text of Don Quixote verbatim could be a creative act.

Creativity is about _intentionally_ expressing a _point of view_ under some constraints.

When people say LLMs can't be creative, what I think mostly they are getting at is that they lack intentionality and/or a distinct point of view. (i do not have a strong opinion about whether they do or if it's impossible for them to have them)