To be fair, most of the science fiction is about it being horribly broken or, at least, functioning in ways its human stewards did not intend.

that's basically what the movie is about.

This may have been explored but how much different is this from natural phenomena which we have only theories for their behavior?

That is, people have worked with aspects of physics and horticulture to use long before understanding the science. Also, with varying success.

Could LLM-generated AI artifacts be thought of in similar lines?