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Barack Obama: “For elevator music, AI is going to work fine. Music like Bob Dylan or Stevie Wonder, that's different” (musictech.com)
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Barack Obama: “For elevator music, AI is going to work fine. Music like Bob Dylan or Stevie Wonder, that's different”::Barack Obama has weighed in on AI’s impact on music creation in a new interview, saying, “For elevator music, AI is going to work fine”.

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[–] 32 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

I think the statement was more about the impact, which will depend on each person's subjective experience

Personally I agree. Even if AI could produce identical work, the impact would be lessened. Art is more meaningful when you know it took time and was an expression/interpretation by another human (rather than a pattern prediction algorithm Frankenstein-ing existing work together). Combine that with the volume of AI content that's produced, and the impact of any particular song/art piece is even more limited.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    I'd say art is more meaningful when it's a unique experience. It's like those myths about glassmakers being killed blinded after the cathedral is finnished so that no one can replicate the glass color... without the killing.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    People are social, if enough people feel the same way about one thing it'll succeed. It doesn't matter where it came from or how it was made, like how people can still admire and appreciate nature. Or maybe the impact will be that it reduces all impacts. Every group and subgroup might be able to have their own thing.

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