AI could be a tool in the context of perhaps having to perform some kind of relatively time consuming and laborious and repetitive process where the objective is that AI can do a "decent" in a fraction of the time it would take a human. Perhaps like designing certain types of web pages.
But you're right, AI will not create anything new because it has to get its information from something that already exists in order to "create" something.
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