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.
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.
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@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? |
AI will do great things for us, like modeling new drugs (already happening), working out the tech of fusion energy (huge and already happening and a possible answer to the climate change/energy problem). Like fire that burned flesh but also raised mankind up AI will vault humanity to new levels. And AI is basically human culture. It’s not alien. Holly Herndon has been playing in this area for a while and her music is amazing. Challenging but very interesting.
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@ossicle2brain Yes AI will do great things but it’s the flip side when applied is worrying. Newton's Third Law Is in the house. Let’s kick tonight of with some Johnny "Guitar" Watson before all jazz takes over. |
