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by sgtgig 441 days ago
Pretty much my exact sentiments. The Internet for a long time has contained more than enough information and connections to other people for anyone to learn nearly any skill they want. Anyone who wants to put in the work has the opportunity.

Celebrating the 'democratization' of these skills is just showing adversity to basic learning and thinking. I'm not gonna celebrate a billion dollar corp trying to replace fundamentals of being human.
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Workaccount2 441 days ago
>Celebrating the 'democratization' of these skills is just showing adversity to basic learning and thinking.

The reality is that you cannot become an expert in everything. I have songs I'd love to compose in my head, but it would be totally impractical for me to go through the hundreds/thousands of hours of training that would be needed to realize these songs in reality. Nor am I particularly motivated to pay someone else to sit there for hours trying to compose what I am telling them.

This is true for hundreds of activities. Things I want to do, but cannot devote the time to learn the intermediate steps to get there.

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gazebo64 441 days ago
>I have songs I'd love to compose in my head, but it would be totally impractical for me to go through the hundreds/thousands of hours of training that would be needed to realize these songs in reality. Nor am I particularly motivated to pay someone else to sit there for hours trying to compose what I am telling them.

So the alternative is that you'll pay a tech company instead -- to use their model trained on unlicensed and uncredited human works to generate a mishmash of plagiarized songs, the end result of which nobody will ever want to listen to?

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sgtgig 441 days ago
> you cannot become an expert in everything

You don't have to though. Anyone who's spent a decent amount of time in a creative hobby will tell you they sucked when they started but they enjoyed the process of learning and exploring. I think you're depriving yourself of the mental benefits of learning a new skill and being creative. It flexes your mind in new ways.

If you just want something to exist, sure, but when you can press buttons and have a magic box spit out whatever you want with no effort, how much are you actually going to value it?

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Workaccount2 441 days ago
If you only knew how many hobbies I have already lol
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