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by epolanski 166 days ago
I haven't stated anything about meme creators using AI, I just pointed out a DJ's skill isn't based on randomly playing songs.
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I think a lot of people mean "Wedding DJ" or "Radio DJ".

However there is a whole small subculture around this. A friend would go hunting for records to sample in Charity shops for old vinyls (this was pre-ebay). This apparently is known a "Digging" and lot of Music Producers, DJs etc would do this to find samples for their sets/albums.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6aQgZFrVKE

Similar you have people using tracker software on old Amigas / Ataris to play sets.

e.g.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkTQ-15jGD0&list=RDCkTQ-15jG...

Oh. Why? I didn't see anybody arguing that DJing was random or unskilled.