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Originally Posted by gmw
I know it's not your thing to get worked up about stuff, and that's cool man, we dig it. But no one is claiming this as the end of the world; a new status quo will be established in time. Some will gain by it and some will lose out, as "was, is and ever shall be."
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I don't know, man...
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Originally Posted by SleepyBob
On an individual level, I can appreciate that. On a societal level, I think it would run the risk of causing stagnation, drowning out attempts at innovation by human authors.
A musicGPT AI that was only ever trained on classical music is unlikely to develop blues, ragtime, ska, or rap. And when AI can generate good enough material for pennies, no human author or composer would be able to make a full-time living from their craft.
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The above sounded just a touch End of the World-ey to me. *shrug*
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Originally Posted by gmw
But it's still interesting (to some of us, anyway) to discuss what things might change and what things might get lost along the way.
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By all means, carry on my wayward peeps. My last was a direct reply to the cat who seemed to be stressin' over the notion of future societal stagnation because of this trend. Not a general suggestion that y'all should mellow and consider vacatin' the scene.