Re:AI Generated Music Barred from Bandcamp
by gspr on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @04:06PM
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> And you create music without ever having heard music before? Or are you also extracting other artist’s work and using it as inspiration for what you do?
But the parent poster is, presumably, human! Humans have the right to take inspiration like that from other humans (or machines)! Why do we seem so keen on granting machines the right to take from us? Are we not supposed to be their masters?
Re:AI Generated Music Barred from Bandcamp
by JohnFen on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @05:42PM
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Only if the human is actually making the music. If a machine is just generating the song at a human's request, then the human isn't making music, the machine is.
But the parent poster is, presumably, human! Humans have the right to take inspiration like that from other humans (or machines)! Why do we seem so keen on granting machines the right to take from us? Are we not supposed to be their masters?