I think, at this point, the burden of proof has shifted for skeptics to prove why AI won't be able to produce a certain kind of art. Still, I think music will

I think, at this point, the burden of proof has shifted for skeptics to prove why AI won't be able to produce a certain kind of art. Still, I think music will be the most resistant to these kinds of trends. Anyone who is familiar with classical music or jazz can tell you that even when the same piece is performed by two very talented musicians, there's often an ineffable and unquantifiable "it" factor that separates the merely incredibly talented from the truly great. Sometimes this is incredibly subtle, or isn't immediately apparent to those who aren't familiar with a genre, but especially because music directly involves the human voice and the movements of the human body, I find this je ne sais quoi much more readily apparent in music than any other artistic medium. Does that mean AI won't be able to capture it? No, definitely not. But I do think as the marginal cost of producing derivative pop music goes to zero, people will gravitate towards more "organic" forms of expression that are more difficult to emulate through brute force. For example, there's a lot of bad noise music and bad free jazz out there. Most of it probably. I'm sure AI can already produce convincing bad noise music. But since that's already the case, the bar is much higher for AI to produce something that's actually good.