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I think AI will raise the bar for all kinds of artistic mediums. There’s already more music, literature, film etc than you can possibly consume - if you can eas

I think AI will raise the bar for all kinds of artistic mediums. There’s already more music, literature, film etc than you can possibly consume - if you can easily make middling art with a prompt then it’s going to be swamped by all the other stuff, the really good, unique, fresh art will rise to the top. Perhaps they’ll use AI but it’ll still be the same amount of work put into and the quality will be better. I think nobody is going to get rich and famous from low-effort promoting.

ambentzen 22d ago
> I think nobody is going to get rich and famous from low-effort promoting. Hopefully not, but there will be a lot of people trying, which is the problem. That alone will drown out a lot of human made music and muddy the waters.
suddenlybananas 22d ago
>if you can easily make middling art with a prompt then it’s going to be swamped by all the other stuff, the really good, unique, fresh art will rise to the top No it'll be buried under slop. This was a huge issue before AI-generated art and I can only see it getting worse.
- raddan 22d ago
  Exactly. Mass-market music is not good. It takes effort to find the good stuff, especially if you want to find new good stuff. The last 20 years has seen a shift toward the most bland, formulaic, autotuned music. All the weird, quirky, interesting qualities have been ironed out. AI does not make mistakes, and more importantly, does not make any demands of its owners, unlike an actual rock star. Fortunately there are still many talented (but struggling) musicians out there. I worry that the flood of passable AI generated content will finally finish them off.
  - idiotsecant 22d ago
    The last 20 years have been an explosion of new music as barriers to making it have gone down. More musicians are making more music and there's more good stuff than ever.
bezko 22d ago
Angine de Poitrine is the perfect example of that, something current AI would have a hard time replicating but I'm not saying it's not possible.
Forgeties79 22d ago
Why on earth would I pick something someone made with no intention - because they didn’t actually make anything just described and crossed their fingers - over something made by a real that actually expresses something meaningful and personal? You can't call it “your writing” or “your music” if you’re using the same tool millions of others are using that boils your idea down to the same reduction as everyone else’s made with the exact same (stolen) ingredients. Remember how people treated auto-tune?
Juliate 21d ago
« Raising the bar » makes literally no sense, but only if you consider a tiny segment of activities within the arts that’s about consumption, promotion and purchase.

ambentzen 22d ago

> I think nobody is going to get rich and famous from low-effort promoting. Hopefully not, but there will be a lot of people trying, which is the problem. That alone will drown out a lot of human made music and muddy the waters.

suddenlybananas 22d ago

>if you can easily make middling art with a prompt then it’s going to be swamped by all the other stuff, the really good, unique, fresh art will rise to the top No it'll be buried under slop. This was a huge issue before AI-generated art and I can only see it getting worse.

raddan 22d ago
Exactly. Mass-market music is not good. It takes effort to find the good stuff, especially if you want to find new good stuff. The last 20 years has seen a shift toward the most bland, formulaic, autotuned music. All the weird, quirky, interesting qualities have been ironed out. AI does not make mistakes, and more importantly, does not make any demands of its owners, unlike an actual rock star. Fortunately there are still many talented (but struggling) musicians out there. I worry that the flood of passable AI generated content will finally finish them off.
- idiotsecant 22d ago
  The last 20 years have been an explosion of new music as barriers to making it have gone down. More musicians are making more music and there's more good stuff than ever.

bezko 22d ago

Angine de Poitrine is the perfect example of that, something current AI would have a hard time replicating but I'm not saying it's not possible.

Forgeties79 22d ago

Why on earth would I pick something someone made with no intention - because they didn’t actually make anything just described and crossed their fingers - over something made by a real that actually expresses something meaningful and personal? You can't call it “your writing” or “your music” if you’re using the same tool millions of others are using that boils your idea down to the same reduction as everyone else’s made with the exact same (stolen) ingredients. Remember how people treated auto-tune?

Juliate 21d ago

« Raising the bar » makes literally no sense, but only if you consider a tiny segment of activities within the arts that’s about consumption, promotion and purchase.