If A.I. took the place of musicians, would you listen to it?


A few questions which I'm curious about. If you have a take on this, please share!

Here's the question:

A.I. is increasingly playing a role in music creation. Not just assisting composers, but generating music.

If you found an A.I. generated song to be enjoyable, interesting, etc. would you have any objection to supporting it by listening and paying for the service which provides it?

If more and more music was like this, and there were fewer and fewer jobs for musicians, would that bother you? -- I'm thinking here about the aesthetics of the issue, not the economics or justice of it. 

I'm trying to understand if people just want to have a certain set of sensations from music and they don't care if there are human beings creating it -- or if it's important for you to know that what you're experiencing from music (or art) is coming from human beings.

Thank you for thinking about this.

hilde45

Showing 1 response by audiodwebe

Have never had to think about music "not" being created by a real person so this line of thinking is new to all of us, I presume.  And it's a good question.

Right now, I'm leaning toward not caring whether a piece is created by an AI or human, as long as its's just music or a fluff pop piece.  However, if the song's lyrics are hauntingly emotional, I wouldn't listen to the song if it was AI generated.  I'd want that to be from someone's lived experience.