@snilf That was a doozie of a paper professor. Thanks for the Nabokov scholarly refference too. ("Pale Fire" one of my all time beloved books).
AI in the hands of evil doers is/will be calamitous. Hard music to face. But who listens?
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.