[otabdeveloper4]

AI is not a tool, it is an oracle.

Furthermore, it is an oracle built on copyright infringement.

Do you understand the difference between "tool" and "oracle"?

[my002]

AI is not an "oracle" no matter how much Altman and Amodei claim it is.

[mapontosevenths]

No. Explain.

[otabdeveloper4]

Tools are things that you 100 percent control based on nothing but your own skill.

Oracles are things that give you free stuff if you've been a good boy and respected the oracle's rituals.

[gonzalohm]

So if I sample a guitar because I don't know how to play the guitar, is the tool I used to sample it "an oracle"?

[Austizzle]

I think samplers are still clearly tools. You are still as a human performing with the sampler or at the very least manually arranging with it. If you gave somebody else the same sample, they would produce a different result.

Whereas AI (if we ignore RNG for a moment) will produce the same output from the same prompt. It's not a tool, it's a magic box that spits out a finished product with no human effort outside of the prompt.

[otabdeveloper4]

No, you're using the sampler as a tool.

[giglamesh]

Tool was a kind of metal/funk band (or something like that) and Oracle is a database (management system) that somehow made a lot of money for a lot of consultants (and the oligarch owners) even though open source alternatives were far superior.

[ozzmotik]

I know this is perhaps a bit tongue-in-cheek but it's still astounding just how suspiciously accurate the implied parallel here is... lol