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Possibly of interest: "the current rush to advance generative AI technology could be "spiritually, politically, and economically" corrosive. By effectively removing people, like musicians, from algorithms and tech that create new content, elements of society that were once connections between people are turned into "objects" that become less interesting and meaningful, Lanier explained.

"As soon as you have the algorithms taking music from musicians, mashing it up into new music, and then not paying the musicians, gradually you start to undermine the economy because what happens to musicians now happens to everybody later," Lanier said.

He noted that, while this year has been the "year of AI," next year the world is going to be "flooded, flooded with AI-generated music."


https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-jaron-lanier-ai-advancing-without-human-dignity-undermines-everything-2023-10

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The term "AI" is, in itself, both artificial and unintelligent. There is nothing artificial about human engineering algorithms that process ones and zeros to reach outcomes directed by -- humans. Just faster computations by machines that can toil endlessly to produce workable outcomes quicker than unaided humans. And, yes, arrive at (valid) conclusions to complex scenarios that would be impossible without machine interaction. In AI music, we assume we are getting an aggregate of a vast pool of the creative minds of many individuals to produce something of value. So, an AI music designer decides to "scrub" all diminished 7ths in the musical score and "scrub" any reference to "cars", or any mode of transportation from the lyrics. You/we may "like" what we hear. But, we could also be hearing a highly personal human contribution to the final product, while being completely unaware that certain aspects have been "canceled" due to bias, and/or personal agenda. Accurate musical history can be erased forever, and our all-knowing current AI references tell us that we’re only imagining that diminished 7th were once commonplace in popular music and references to "modes of transportation" were .. moving.

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