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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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inna
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It is an open question of how far AI can go. This is the most dangerous experiment I can think of. We can't really even control ourselves, how can we hope to be able to control we don't know what ? And why bother with this AI nonsense, anyway ?

Primitive robots is one thing and true AI is something completely different.

gdaddy1
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A good song would still be enjoyable to listen to no matter who made it. I don't see   a reason to hate on it just because it's AI generated.

It's up to you. If you like an AI generated song... fine. I wouldn't try to censor it.  If the real artist can do better then do it and I'll listen to that instead.

 

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jastralfu
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@larsman AI might not stop humans from creating art but it might prevent them from getting paid.  This is a thing in the music industry where companies are using the music libraries they own to train AI to write, produce and record songs in the style of human artists.  Rick Beato has done a couple of videos on the subject.  Not that he is an expert on AI but he has an interesting take on it.

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larsman
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@jastralfu - you are right; getting paid as an artist is bad enough as it is, and you wouldn't want a Milli Vanilli situation where the artists do not perform on the record. But ultimately I do not see an artistic problem as long as the recording is not misidentified as something it's not. 

stuartk
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Technology may not be the enemy, if considered within a vacuum.

However, it’s uses and impacts are all too often determined by aspects of human nature whose benefit to humanity as a whole is, in my view, questionable at best.Furthermore, we live in a culture where those who have the greatest capacity for leveraging technology for the sake of enhancing personal wealth and power enjoy an unhealthy level of influence when it comes to avoiding regulation and enjoying impunity from being held responsible for the destructive impacts their utilization of technology  incurs. Zuckerberg is a great example.

As a creative person, why would I want to help such individuals enrich themselves or aid them in replacing human artists with software?

 

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