| ▲ | marssaxman 3 hours ago |
| A classic tale from the music production world comes to mind: "I thought using loops was cheating, so I programmed my own using samples. I then thought using samples was cheating, so I recorded real drums. I then thought that programming it was cheating, so I learned to play drums for real. I then thought using bought drums was cheating, so I learned to make my own. I then thought using premade skins was cheating, so I killed a goat and skinned it. I then thought that that was cheating too, so I grew my own goat from a baby goat. I also think that is cheating, but I’m not sure where to go from here. I haven’t made any music lately, what with the goat farming and all." |
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| ▲ | throwlifeaway 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Does prompting an AI music generation service count as making your own songs? I noticed you left that one out of your parable. |
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| ▲ | jermaustin1 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | As a songwriter, drum hitter, and acoustic strummer, I am not good at drums (can play on beat, though), guitar (can strum all the cowboy chords, though), or singing (no caveat on this one). So sometimes when I want to hear what my song COULD be if I were good at every one of those, I will use Suno. But I do not let it change my lyrics, or chose it's own arrangement. I will give it a VERY ROUGH demo (out of key singing, basic drums and strums, and it will "polish" my turds into really shiny turds. | |
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| ▲ | marssaxman 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Does snapping a photo with a camera count as making your own painting? | | |
| ▲ | Seich 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | We don’t call the end result a painting though, we call it a photo. Theres probably some value to distinguishing between them. | | |
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| ▲ | bitpush 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | If figma draws you a gradient, are you really a designer? | | |
| ▲ | 1bpp 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Probably yes; If Figma is deciding for you where the gradient goes, what colors it is, and what its purpose in the design is, then no. | | |
| ▲ | 8note 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | it kinda is by showing you tools in a certain order and what defaults and so on | | |
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| ▲ | nkrisc 42 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | A designer, yes. A painter, no. |
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| ▲ | 1bpp 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| No, it's using FL Studio's random sequence generator with a general MIDI instrument, exporting it, then saying it's a ballad you just composed. Or paying a ghostwriter to write on a topic, then saying it's a novel you just wrote. |
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| ▲ | dionian 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| "Good artists copy, great artists steal." - Picasso |
