You probably never prompted an AI model until you got something good from it.

Not really. The output of the radio knob has far less opportunity to create an original work.

Literally nothing the AI outputs is an original work.

That's a testable hypothesis. Go sample every AI output until you find one that doesn't have a previously created 1:1 analogue.

Unless of course you mean "original" as in, some kind of wishy washy untargetable goal that's really some appeal to humanity, where any piece of information that disagrees with your hypothesis is discarded because it is unfalsifiable. Original might as well mean "Made by a human and that's it" which isn't useful at all.

Whereas I use it to mean new or different.

> Whereas I use it to mean new or different.

Literally nothing AI outputs is new or different.

That's like saying nothing that comes out of people's mouths is new or different because it's all been uttered before.