On the one hand, you can blame AI for destroying the arts. On the other hand, if the AI product is seen as superior to a certain baseline in the creative arts or music business, what does it tell you about the average quality and creativity in that area?
I don’t listen to modern pop/rock music anymore, as it has become a larely monotonous, boring, uninspiring carpet of notes and sounds. Same with “creative” arts: How many people randomly throwing paint at canvasses does the world need?
This ignores that corporate media controls what is put out on the radio and what is allowed to become popular. The generic sameness is not because of the artist but because of the economic forces, the same forces that give us AI ‘music’ garbage
But there’s also only so many billions of enjoyable combinations of sounds you can make in 4 minutes. At some point everything new will be similar to something that’s already been there anyways, regardless of who’s in control.
What does superior mean? If it means superior for the person publishing the song, that likely means it’s much cheaper and good enough to not drive away so much traffic you lose profit.
It’s essentially the enshittification of culture. Things are being done in the lowest cost way possible and making things worse, but not so much worse that people complain about it.
On the one hand, you can blame AI for destroying the arts. On the other hand, if the AI product is seen as superior to a certain baseline in the creative arts or music business, what does it tell you about the average quality and creativity in that area?
I don’t listen to modern pop/rock music anymore, as it has become a larely monotonous, boring, uninspiring carpet of notes and sounds. Same with “creative” arts: How many people randomly throwing paint at canvasses does the world need?
This ignores that corporate media controls what is put out on the radio and what is allowed to become popular. The generic sameness is not because of the artist but because of the economic forces, the same forces that give us AI ‘music’ garbage
But there’s also only so many billions of enjoyable combinations of sounds you can make in 4 minutes. At some point everything new will be similar to something that’s already been there anyways, regardless of who’s in control.
I don’t think you quite grasp the maths behind your own statement.
How does that make sense? Why would we want AI to use this supposed limited set of sounds instead of humans?
This has absolutely nothing to do with quality. This is about exposure and algorithms.
What does superior mean? If it means superior for the person publishing the song, that likely means it’s much cheaper and good enough to not drive away so much traffic you lose profit.
It’s essentially the enshittification of culture. Things are being done in the lowest cost way possible and making things worse, but not so much worse that people complain about it.