AI is coming for music, too: New diffusion AI models that make songs from scratch are complicating our definitions of authorship and human creativity.
AI is coming for music, too
Human creativity is akin to stealing fire from the gods. Asking a theft machine to take a creativity-shaped shit is just consumption with extra damage to the climate.
This definition has not changed.
I think it is true AI lacks true creativity, but the point is you don't need creativity for lots of commercial art.
Stock music, stock videos, video game environments, etc - the industries that made them have always employed creative humans, but they can be made by AI that doesn't have true creativity.
Jim Henson made amazing bread and coffee commercials with an early version of Kermit. There is nothing intrinsically banal about commercial work, the banality is a feature of capitalism in decline.
Source: a thought I just had