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Marple's avatar

I hate to be annoying (really) but this has been the case for decades with artists and their work because they function within the music industry or publishing and they don’t have editorial control. They never did. This is nothing to do with A I and is giving credence to something that has all the hall marks of a moral panic.

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Shaggy Snodgrass's avatar

I'm gonna say what I always say about the "dead artists coming back with AI" thing:

Once the novelty wears off (+/- 6 months; by 2023 standards), listeners will only hear the hands of the profiteers who pump out the ghoulish drivel those bits of "content" will be. They, after all, or their flat-rate contractors will be writing the compositions, and they will not stand up to the live artist's original works qualitatively at all.

Remember, music is *made*; manure is "produced". The profiteers will ruin AI as a viable music generator (except for limited use-cases) within a couple years; through either saturation of low-effort low-quality "product", or competitive sabotage of each other's data models. When that goes down, you can still go see Taylor Swift, or Molchat Doma, or Trombone Shorty, or come have a few beers with any of my bands. Those experiences cannot be stolen or duplicated by any wanna-be Turing or Yetnikoff, however hard they try.

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