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But if the listener can't tell the difference? If you feel the human connection in a music that is not make by human, do you seek for seal for authenticity?

• JohnFen 2y ago
  > But if the listener can't tell the difference? I think a listener can tell the difference. But for the sake of argument: if not, and if I fell for it, I would be absolutely furious and feel deceived. It would be like falling in love with a woman and discovering she's an android. But let me make a very human argument. A big part of why this is so important to me is that it feels like a line in the sand. Technology has already devalued humanity to a very disturbing degree, and is increasingly alienating us all not only from each other, but from ourselves as human beings. And much of the stuff I hear from the current LLM crowd is pretty overt about this and celebrates it. If machines are able to subvert and mimic the very essence of what it is to be human, then we have lost. What would be the point of even carrying on at all? > pop artists already have meticulously crafted "he/she is real not a corporate product" PR and people feel it to be real. A thing can be both real human communication and a corporate product, but I get what you're saying here. And that is likely why pop music is largely uninteresting to me. It's empty. It's junk food as compared to real food. As I said before, lots of people don't need to have a human communication in order to find value in music. They're fine with it just being pretty sounds. Others do need that connection. I'm just in that latter camp. As long as people like me exist, there will be a need for actual artists.