The "they re-create art" argument comes from a paper that is widely shared on Reddit. Thing is, that paper itself mentions that the researchers trained their own models on small data sized, ranging from 300 pictures to few thousand, and they started seeing novel results at 1000 images.

​

Also current bots can't generate good code, not yet, but they have their own usage. As an example, a client I recently had asked me to design patching system (small shop, with 100 or so servers, they had no use for automated patching up to now), and some simple automation. You know, the type of weekend jobs you do to earn some extra cash. Well, since they are using azure, I went with azure automation, but I had no idea how it works. Well, chatGPT told me how it works, in details, gave me some code that might work, etc. But the most important thing by far was the high level overview, it saved me hours of reading documentation. This shit is the future, but not how you might expect it to be.