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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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mgattmch
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What an interesting and thought provoking question, thank you for posting hide45.

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tony1954
1,049 posts
 

Very interesting question.

On the whole, if the music moves me, then I would probably listen to it and I wouldn't boycott Qobuz if it was part of their music library.

However, when it comes to replacing actual musicians, that's where the issues begin. Much like replacing actors with AI CGI, replacing musicians with AI is inherently offensive.

Until AI is capable of actual creative genius, as opposed to merely clever mimicry, it will never push creativity forward or have the ability to touch our souls.

 

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noromance
9,810 posts
 

Not intentionally. 

robert53
465 posts
 

Emotion, imagination, skill and intelligence are all utilized to play and write music. Does AI have all these?

sns
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People really underestimating the abilities of AI going into the future. We are presently in the infancy stage of AI, AI will replicate all the emotion, imagination, skill and intelligence of living breathing humans ,however,  it can never be a sentient being. The question is, will that matter in the long run? If people perceive it as a sentient being isn't it a sentient being?  Some already interacting with robots as sentient beings, I expect human's relation to AI to only expand into the future, expect long term emotional relationships. Our emotional involvement with AI generated music will become ubiquitous and accepted given enough time, easy accomplishment vs. a personal friendship/relationship.

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