Yeah this is a fair point. In honesty, the attempts I have made to have GPT help me think creatively has usually left me disappointed and feeling like it was picking safe, middle-of-the-road solutions. That could be on my prompting skills but also I tend to view LLMs as more of a fuzzy information retrieval tool than a creative/reasonable one. It just hasn’t shown me original ideas that have seemed compelling to me yet (maybe I just need to beg it to be more “original”).
It takes practice. LLM can't read your mind, put it in prompt if you have some specific ideas. Usually helps to ask for options and overview first. You may get some ideas here. I think communication barrier is one of biggest problems when working with LLM. You can often see posts like "I asked it for XX" and it gave me some crap in return. Well, it depends on 'how' you ask. Also you need to consciously stay in control. At takes some efforts and usually LLM is arrogant, bossy, self confident, and sometimes manipulative. Just like human 'experts' on forums.
