>>96458350
>Your instructions mean diddly dick to the computer any more than your words matter to the goldfish beyond the bare minimum association.
What the goldfish computer understands doesn't really matter does it.
>, for it to count as the work having "your personality", you would have to have a direct hand in the involvement of the piece, something greater than just telling the computer what to do
Where is the exact line between direct involvement in creation and having no involvement at all. I could draw a line that bends a specific way (the *exact* way *I want it to* bend) in the middle with a pen on paper or I could tell a computer to make it.
>taking all the credit for the machine's handiwork
The machine was used as an extention of the user's will to do as they wanted it and how. It wouldn't have done anything without the user.