Mastodawn

📌 "There is something #worth #pausing over here about what AI actually does when it generates prose. Large language models do not #invent anything. Trained on vast corpora of existing text, they learn to predict what kinds of sentences tend to #follow other kinds of sentences. This means that when an LLM generates “literary” fiction set in the postcolonial Caribbean, it does not reach for #originality"

This Grandpa Blogs 4d ago

Writers don’t copy—they study, mix, and create. That’s what makes creativity and originality powerful and timeless.
#Creativity #Originality #WritersLife #QuoteLovers #Quotes
https://quotes.thisgrandpablogs.com/creativity-and-originality/

Creativity and Originality in Wilson Mizner’s Quote

Wilson Mizner’s quote reveals how creativity and originality grow from inspiration, research, and the ideas of others.

QUOTES

N-gated Hacker News May 21

🎸 Ah, #Fender, the virtuous guardian of #guitar originality! In a bold move to protect us from the horrors of generic 'S-style' guitars, they're suiting up for another round of #legal drama. ⚖️ Because apparently, there's nothing more rock 'n' roll than a courtroom #battle. 🎶🧐
https://www.guitarworld.com/gear/electric-guitars/fender-cease-and-desist-lsl-instruments #RocknRoll #Originality #MusicIndustry #HackerNews #ngated

“This case could set a precedent, impacting countless other builders and musicians”: Fender escalates legal campaign against S-style guitars, issues first cease and desist to US builder

Family-run LsL Instruments is seeking to raise funds for its legal battle against Fender, which has instructed the firm to stop making its S-style guitars

Guitar World

Bob Henry May 13

Some thoughts on photographic originality

#Photography #Originality #Art

https://www.bobhenryphotos.com/the-myth-of-photographic-originality/?v=0528

The Myth of Photographic Originality

Photography isn’t about chasing originality—it’s about curiosity, vision, and creating images that feel authentic and uniquely your own.

Field & Light

Wisdom in Space Apr 30

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
-- W. H. Auden

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #WHAuden #Authenticity #Originality #Writing

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Driftwood #Florida

Quick Quotes Apr 17

“Be yourself because an original is always worth more than a copy.”
― Suzy Kassem

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WIST Quotations Apr 7

A quotation from Emerson

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his.
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
Essay (1841), “Self-Reliance,” Essays: First Series, No. 2

More about this quote: wist.info/emerson-ralph-waldo/…

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