@TheIgnorantSavage @rustoleumlove @Gustodon You’ve spent so much time dodging the question by swapping in taste, labour, and status and calling it philosophy.

You still you don’t address a contradiction you refuse to resolve. You insist intent exists in sampling and other derivative practices but vanishes the moment an LLM is involved, even while acknowledging human prompting, selection, rejection, and deployment.

That doesn’t cohere. Tools don’t have intent. People do. Depth and aesthetic quality are value judgements layered on afterward, not prerequisites for agency.

And to be explicit, this isn’t about my desire to use generative AI. It’s about your refusal to address that contradiction. Each time it’s raised, you pivot to taste or contempt instead of answering it.

That avoidance is a big tell.