The creative journey is not an inconvenience
I was reading an article on Music Radar today about Suno Studio AI and the growing use of AI in music creation. Some music maker I've never heard of said that we can't beat AI, so we should either integrate it into music making or just drive Ubers for a living.
I'm pretty tired of dipshit tech bros and opportunists telling everyone that we gotta jump on the ai train now or get left behind! Apparently, in their view, making coin and amassing fame are the only things that matter. Let ai do the work while you do the art - that's another braindead winner I often hear.
So, we have AI, trained on a bunch of copyrighted music, now being sold as an easy and quick way to make the music that is currently overrunning services like Spotify and Deezer so that lazy executives and rent seekers can extract more money without paying royalties to the same music makers they owe a debt to for using their music as an AI training ground? Doesn’t that sound like the biggest scam?
Apparently, putting in the hours to make music, learning, failing, trying - that's just an inconvenience that AI solves. The journey to create art IS part of the art. It's not dispensable. It's not an inconvenience. It's the way we create meaning for ourselves. It's the method by which we grow and understand both ourselves and the world.
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