> sampling unusual ideas is something eminently automatable. We already have temperature and other settings to guide a LLM towards this kind of "weird"

This isn’t true and changing the temperature of your LLM doesn’t create weird in any way that’s marketable or interesting to people.

But what I will say anything that gives your reach the slightest advantage will just be replicated by a human when they notice it. Think of how niche ASMR content was and now every brand under the sun has done an ASMR unboxing