Transformative ai art

By definition, what does “transformative” mean?

To me, it means making something new. Like how water can originally be in a liquid state but then turn into a solid state (ice) or a gaseous state (vapor)

So if you put human art into a LLM and get ai art, is that by definition transformative still? Because it’s still “art in & new art out”

Now if we put art into the machine & got a poem about said art as an output, then I’d understand how it’s transformative because the output is different than the input.

Is the fact that the ai art is something new the entirely of its transformative nature?