The Power of Generative AI

A lot of what we really like about literary style is being surprised. Can a generative AI tell the difference between a comparison or a word choice that is strange in a pleasing and exciting way versus one that will be essentially interpreted as a hallucination by the AI? I think probably it would be able to do that because remember, all it's doing is a statistical game of saying, okay, what's the most probable thing to come next?"