AI can't innovate, and "use AI" is not a goal

A host recounts trying to brainstorm reviving abandoned 1940s-50s town generators with an AI that invented prices and fake roadmaps: it filled gaps with guesses and sold them as solid gold. The hosts agree AI can only recombine existing ideas, and mock companies whose key objective is simply to "use AI" like a chair company declaring its goal is to use more hammers.