Did sampling kill creativity

With all the outrage about AI writing and coding not being “real creativity”, I can’t stop thinking about when sampling became a thing in the 80s.

Musicians taking bits and pieces from other records to create something new.

It was legally messy but creatively fascinating.

Is this what we’re experiencing now?

AI will follow sampling’s playbook: outrage, adoption, amnesia.

Today’s “AI kills creativity” will be tomorrow’s “I’ve always used these tools.”