No One is Unique

One of the most frustrating experiences of my philosophical academic career was learning that I'm not special. Every idea I've had, someone else already contemplated decades or centuries ago. Why would I be the first one to contemplate ideas that are not at the bleeding edge of discovery and human understanding?

The truth is, people have had a long time to consider a lot of things, so the odds of making anything truly unique is rather low. I don't agree that uniqueness or originality should be a criteria for judging models since it is not only irrelevant, it's nearly impossible! Why would you want to reinvent the wheel when it's going to cost you more time and money to figure out the other problems you'll run into?

Source: https://www.psypost.org/a-mathematical-ceiling-limits-generative-ai-to-amateur-level-creativity/