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Let’s play out what the successful story looks like, for example in music generation: * thousands of composers and musicians “contribute” their works for free
by drivebyhooting 1y ago
Let’s play out what the successful story looks like, for example in music generation:
* thousands of composers and musicians “contribute” their works for free to OpenAI and their ilk.
* models are trained and can produce movie scores, personalized sound tracks, etc
* the market for composers dwindles to a small sliver. Few if any choose to pursue it.
* OpenAI et al have a de facto monopoly on music creation.
* Soon the art of composition is lost. There are a few who can make a living as composers by selling their persona rather than their music. They actually just use OpenAI to write it for them.
Is that the future we want? Inevitable.
- fragmede 1y agohttp://Suno.ai http://Suno.ai is already there.
- drivebyhooting 1y agoMight be a skill issue but my prompt was not followed.
- Msurrow 1y agoKoda, the danish music copyright organisation just sued Suno.ai [1] calling it the “biggest music theft in history”. Apparently suno can almost completely reproduce some “big” songs made by danish bands eg D-A-D, Aqua. Edit- and from the article it seems they are doing what they can to make it a political/legislation issue. [1]: https://koda.dk/om-koda/nyheder/koda-sagsoeger-ai-tjenesten-suno https://koda.dk/om-koda/nyheder/koda-sagsoeger-ai-tjenesten-...
- drivebyhooting 1y agoThis could establish precedent for LLMs being infringing on authors.
- glimshe 1y agoKeep in mind that professional composers are a tiny minority of people who make great music. And very few professional musicians actually live off royalties. I'm sure that music will do just fine without draconian copyright laws, as it has done for literally thousands of years.
- drivebyhooting 1y agoBecause something had been the same for thousands of years doesn’t mean it will remain so. That is a logical fallacy. I think it’s undeniable that the financial incentive will change dramatically as genAI tools become substitute goods (even if inferior) to creative output.
- drivebyhooting 1y agoI’m not sure why so many seem angry about my scenario. Is it because my prose sounds biased against GenAI companies? Or I jumped to a bleak conclusion without adequate supporting arguments?