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[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Re: images. You have no control over what the machine does. You give it a prompt, it generates an image, you decide it's good enough and save the picture, or it's not good enough and tweak the prompt. You don't control the machine. It doesn't put your ideas into a jpeg, it generates a jpeg that's consistent with the description you gave. If that picture is also consistent with your ideas, cool. You can't give the machine an idea to put into the JPEG in the first place, because the machine cannot have ideas.

Re: music. The part I'm listening to, the playback or the recording, is a machine doing things that have a direct correlation with your input. You do control the machine, because it only does precisely what you tell it to do. You decide where every individual note goes, how every individual note sounds. There is, again, direct correlation between your input and the output.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

Tweaking the prompt is control. The tool is weird and limited, but that is how you use it.

If you can describe your ideas, then an image consistent with that description... contains your ideas.

You can’t give the machine an idea to put into the JPEG in the first place, because the machine cannot have ideas.

Damn, you're right, so anything conveyed by the image must come from a human being. Wild.

Re: music, all the music I've written is procedural.