Oh my fucking god I just wanted to say how otherworldly bad music is right now (pop has always been stupid to varying levels but oh my fucking god they have raised the stakes). I just listened to a bunch of pop tracks from various genres and I literally think I’m about to die. Rock, country, indie, folk, hipster white rap, whatever you call home, is aggressively bad. It’s like Walmart made a gun that can shoot cum and blood and piss and shit and puke into your soul. We are so fucking fucked. I want to saw my own head off.
How is ai gonna “ruin music”? Just don’t listen to it.
AI is gonna ruin me jamming with my buddies over a couple beers
All art is only someone’s interpretation of the world around them through whatever medium the artist chooses. Whatever the art an artist makes is, it is can only ever be an amalgam of what their experience of the world is. If the world the artist lives in becomes less and less lively, vital and interesting, then their art will also become less lively, vital and interesting. Once AI produced slop becomes ubiquitous, turning the world into a less beautiful, less soulful place, art will also become less beautiful and less soulful.
People miss this part. As AI art becomes more ubiquitous, people’s art will converge closer and closer to AI art. You can already see this phenomenon in Reddit where the humans there more or less sound like bots because bots are so ubiquitous there.
Not only that, but as AI produced material becomes increasingly ubiquitous you also lose all the social and economic infrastructure that supports a particular field - schools close, tools become more expensive and esoteric, experts die without people to replace them.
Old mate
will be fine sinking piss with their mates, but their grand kids are going to be perplexed at spending thousands of hours to play music that has been generated and regurgitated by AI a hundred times before
You can’t tell Spotify (and literally all alternatives) to not promote AI music at you. And AI isn’t legally required to identify itself.
Then be more selective about what you listen to.
Deeply unserious take but maybe you don’t know much about the political economy of music?
Feel free to explain