This thread has focused on the perceived benefits and risks of the change in the music and movie industry business practice from physical media to digital streaming. However, in his original post @erik_squires stated “With the advent of machine learning and AI controlling our music listening we are becoming a world without any control at all over our music or movie culture”. I can take Eric’s statement two ways. First, the statement’s direct meaning is that machine learning controls what we listen to. I do not see this 1984-esque statement as fact. Machine learning and AI generates recommended content based on your history and generates revenue for the streaming services by the sale of your history to those interested commercially. Let’s not debate the ethics of the latter. I can also take the statement to mean machine learning and AI can and will be used to create content without the musician or actor, having an effect on culture. I responded in my original post as to what I feel are the dangers to the human, artistic nature of music and theater. To repeat, I feel we will loose the emotion, soul, and spontaneity with deep fakes that use an algorithm to homogenizes input of all past performances. I feel it is a sad future state of for the human expression of the art.
@erik_squires What was your meaning of the statement?
Others: Do you have an opinion on machine learning and AI replacing musicians and actors in the generation of new content? … and its effect on culture.