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Comment on A cartoonist's review of AI art, by Matthew Inman

I want to touch on how he mentions ticking the button to automatically make music on a Casio keyboard.

i fully realize I’m being reductive to the point of being offensive but that’s not my intent, when I say: that’s at least in part, the very first seed to becoming a professional DJ. That’s not nothing.

Using AI to generate art can be the same thing if it’s extrapolated out into complexity and layered nuance. It might not make you an artist exactly, in the same way that a DJ might not be a musician but it IS a skillset that potentially has value.

And even if you think I’m totally off-base in saying so? I liked pretending with the little automatic music button on the keyboard.

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naught101@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Are you speaking from experience? 'Cause that’s not even vaguely related to how any of the DJs I know (including a couple of professionals) got started. The prime motive for most DJs is sharing cool music, and Casio keyboards don’t do that…

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- theherk@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  If I recall correctly it was a part of how Feel Good Inc. was made. That is tangential at best, I realize, but still a fun story.
  
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- Tracaine@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  No. Not from experience at all. I saw a small documentary once saying DJs remixed and sometimes create almost entirely new music sometimes using computer based audio tools. I’m probably thinking of a different profession. My ignorance, sorry.
  
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  - naught101@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    All good, was just wondering.
    
    I do DJ (non-professionally). I generally think there are two skills with DJing:
    
    Taste, library management and music choice, which is not a technical skill, but does take a bit of effort in preparing for a set
    
    Actual technical mixing skills, which many DJs (including me) barely have, but some take to a level that is on basically a form of musicianship.
    
    I don’t think AI can really help you do either… but I guess it could make a mixed set and you could pretend to play it, like a Casio keyboard
    
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dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I think pushing the button on a Casio keyboard is more akin to tracing your favorite comics panel than using an LLM image generator.

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- Tracaine@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I mean…I liked doing that too. Free Spider man coloring book pages.
  
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