I remember an episode where Data, about to play a violin, tells Picard that he won't enjoy his performance because his music lacks soul, he is just perfectly copying the great musicians who played this tune before.
It's funny how there's storylines like this even in TNG; Data striving and longing to be more than merely derivative - and today techbros tell us that derivative is all we deserve and all we should ever hope for
That only after they've stolen all the original works of art to train their models, ofc
