alt Hacker NewsWhere do you draw that line though?
If you're talking about a person using an LLM, or some other ML system, to help generate their music then the LLM is really just a tool for that person.
I can't run 80 mph but I can drive a car that fast, its my tool to get the job done. Should I not be allowed to do that professionally if I'm not actually the one achieving that speed or carrying capacity?
Personally my concerns with LLMs are more related to the unintended consequences and all the unknowns in play given that we don't really know how they work and aren't spending much effort solving interoperability. If they only ever end up being a tool, that seems a lot more in line with previous technological advancements.
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> I can't run 80 mph but I can drive a car that fast, its my tool to get the job done.
Right, but if you use a chess engine to win a chess championship or if you use a motor to win a cycling championship, you would be disqualified because getting the job done is not the point of the exercise.
Art is (or should be) about establishing dialogues and connections between humans. To me, auto-generated art it's like choosing between seeing a phone picture of someone's baby and a stock photo picture of a random one - the second one might "get the job done" much better, but if there's no personal connection then what's the point?
> I can't run 80 mph but I can drive a car that fast
If you drive a car 80mph you don't get to claim you are a good runner
Similarly if you use an LLM to generate 10k lines of code, you don't get to claim you are a good programmer
Regardless of the outcome being the "same"