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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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macg19
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Electric guitars are available that can be made to sound like Les Paul's, Stratocasters, Telecasters, Flying V's and many more, does that make them artificial?

No. A human has to pick them up and pluck the strings. 

To answer the original question. Not knowingly, with the only possible exception being electronic dance music...every once in awhile I try and re-live my 90's rave days and there is no question in my mind AI could come up with catchy grooves that change seamlessly every 7 minutes, forever.

immatthewj
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every once in awhile I try and re-live my 90's rave days

I missed out on all of that.  Was that where everybody got loaded up on MDMA and danced and partied all night?  Sounds like fun.

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jasonbourne71
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"Open the pod bay doors Hal" "Hal?" "Open the pod bay doors" - from 2001 - A Space Odyssey. 

czarivey
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I’ve already found an AI virtual composer Bot-hoven

bolong
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First we are confronted with a semantic difficulty which mirrors our cognitive difficulty.

artificial /är″tə-fĭsh′əl/
 

adjective

  1. Made by humans, especially in imitation of something natural.
    "an artificial sweetener that replaces sugar; artificial flowers."
  2. Not arising from natural or necessary causes; contrived or arbitrary.
  3. Affected or insincere.
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