Post #651299

re software "laundering": I just call it “sampling” software now. I have a great collection of samples for many situations I built up crate digging, and now I can make tracks pretty quickly, layering on a little solo when I feel like it. Depending on the situation (say, who this software is for, how much I "transformed" the samples) it'll feel like something I just straight out borrowed, but it'll also feel like mine at some point. It feels eerily similar in terms of its ethical and creative implications. We'd lose a lot of music if we straight out banned sampling. And sampling royalties are now mostly corporate owners of catalogs pushing money amongst each other. #llms #llm #vibecoding