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.

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Showing 2 responses by overthemoon

Humans have figured out how to adopt new technologies since the stone age.  

Will AI compose and produce a series of sounds with melody - sure.  Will it be compelling?  Highly doubtful without some human intervention.

I believe AI may allow a person who's not a master musician to create music that may connect with certain folks...kind of like the Sex Pistols :)

I appreciate the comments of individuals regarding music and performance.

In many ways there is lots of artificial replicated music - a radio station, mp3, vinyl and streaming are all recordings.  

The difference between a recording and performance is a performance is a one time event - it's virtually impossible for a musician or singer to perform exactly the same more than once.  

Recordings didn't kill music and I doubt AI will.  It may increase the amount of not wonderful music thoughindecision