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.
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