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The only words I'd omit are, 'to make it seem like' :)

You do you, by all means fight for your right to be accepted and loved as the creative person who just randomly does whatever and it's just as good. Be natural! By all means. At the end of the day you've gotta be what you are and the integrity of that matters.

Without the toil, you ain't me.

Ego is a malignant master. As a rule the folks who rise so high accomplishing such elaborate, auteurist things are MISERABLE, just awful humans. They're driven in a way that doesn't exempt them from the consequence: they are as awful to themselves as they are to others and the prizes they produce are some compensation for what they've been through. Of course they'll flip out when you come around, mister natural, and say that you deserve equal cred—more!—for just hacking around and having fun.

They needn't flip out. Neither you nor the AI are going to be them. It's you who are the middle man, in pointless egolessness.

Take heart in this: you're closer to the mainstream. If you add enough ego and toil you can get to where NOBODY 'gets you' and die in weird obscurity. Which is kind of fun too :) but there will always be more people like you, not very special, able to reach the mass appeal more sincerely and easily.

Except now, AI is better at that than you will ever be ;)



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