[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.