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Is auto tuned considered music?
If out of tune noise can be computer altered into “in tune” music are the performers still considered musicians?
If I write garbage but a word processing program turns it into rhyme, does that make me a poet?
Is there a paint program that will change my splashes of paint into a Rembrandt?
Have all of these questions been generated by an A.I. program?