If A.I. took the place of musicians, would you listen to it?

There is a company out there with a business model that involves using computers to generate "music," filing for copyright of that music, then using software to search for instances where new music happens to violate one of their copyrights so that they can sue that person or extract some payment from such person inadvertently violating the copyright.  

This company is right up there in my esteem with the company that is buying Ahi tuna for ultra deep freeze storage so that, in the future, they can sell sushi at incredibly high prices when the tuna is extinct.

I’ve been thinking about this for a bit and it seems to me that my affinity is due to art, music, and literature being a form of human expression and connection.  It is a way for the artist to express sadness, joy, anger, empathy, passion, or whatever other human emotion that drives the creative process.  It is a form of human connection based on sharing the experience of the human condition.  I don’t know if will live long enough to see AI evolve to the point that it has “human” experiences but for now I don’t find that connection with it as opposed to art created by human minds.

@larryi

That's like Monsanto suing farmers when genetically modified seeds are, unbeknownst to them, transported onto their property and germinate. 

There's no ceiling when it comes to human greed and I expect AI will merely provide more tools for those who are so motivated. 

@baylinor - the referrals still seem to work, but the autofill doesn't and the text looks just like all the other text.... 

@larsman. You are correct since I received yours in my email. Not blue print but black print seems to works fine as well. Good to know.