Originally Posted by JohnJohnJohn
There are plenty of folks who think using BIAB is cheating just as much as AI generation is cheating but here we are on the BIAB forum!

Just to play devil's advocate for a minute...isn't the entirety of human music and art, knowledge and achievement, incrementally built based on the work of previous humans?

William Faulkner: "Immature artists copy, great artists steal"
Igor Stravinsky: "A good composer does not imitate; he steals"
Steve Jobs: "Good artists copy, great artists steal"

Maybe AI just helps more people steal faster?

I kind of agree with Mr Faulkner, Mr Stravinsky and Mr Jobs. However:
- Stealing something from a great musician (for example transcribing a Geoge Benson's solo to try to integrate some of his phrasing into you vocabulary as a musican) requires a lot of time, technique, effort and discipline.
- Even a trained monkey can steal anything from AI.

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