I think there are advantages to being self-taught. You're not as inclined to follow the rules and that's important when you're trying to create.
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The mind does not work by way of ideas, but by way of passionate preferences; we do not see nature, we see our idea of nature.
George Bernard Shaw — The Sanity of Art
The man of science must work with method and system, but the artist works by inspiration, and what the artist produces by inspiration the man of science can explain by analysis only after the fact.
Henri Bergson — The Creative Mind
AI is a mirror, not a crystal ball. It reflects ourselves back to us because it was trained on our words. When we wonder why it's boring or corporate, it's because we're boring and corporate!
Noah