At the ML course at uni they said verbatime that they are plagiarism machines?

I was refuting your point of me not knowing how these things work. They’re used to obfuscate plagiarism.

Did they not explain how neural networks start generalizing concepts? Or how abstractions emerge during the training?

That’s not the same as being creative, tho.

Oh, please tell me how well my time in university was. I’m begging to get information about my academical life from some stranger on the internet. /s