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I doubt generative AI music is going to become popular as anything but background noise, but I think it will plausibly cut into various commercial uses of music

I doubt generative AI music is going to become popular as anything but background noise, but I think it will plausibly cut into various commercial uses of music in ads and whatnot. So while I don't think people are gonna be walking around with playlists of AI slop, businesses will be using it as a cost-effective option, which means it will be eating away at the gig potential for artists in the low-to-mid layers of the food chain. Which sucks, but is thankfully less grim than everyone just preferring the AI slop for some reason.

fragmede 3y ago
“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” Thomas Watson, president of IBM, 1943
- kombookcha 3y ago
  It's plausible to me that there is some kind of strong AI future scenario in which they become capable of making things in a genuinely creative way, but I think generative AI in its current trajectory is ultimately a dead end for both AI art and strong AI. I do think that an actual strong AI would be inclined to make art that is enjoyable to itself and other AIs, not humans, so I don't think making it ape us is an actual good test for when an AI becomes capable of creativity. You can teach a dog to dance, but it will be doing a trick, not a tango.