I also feel similarly weird about the AI generated visual art on the website. It’s like… I like ai generated visual art a lot, and in a utopia I’d hope to keep getting to use the current era of ais, because it’s fun to get the art style of “ai that doesn’t quite get it but is trying and fucks up a lot”. but it’s when that is used by humans to replace something they would have had to commission a human in order to get before… well, maybe it’s cheaper and fits in a tight budget, but maybe the budget for human generated art simply should be higher, in order to actualize the value of humans making art? similarly I don’t dislike the idea of ai being used as a tool to make music… but when one outsources artistic agency to an ai rather than tightly winding your and the ai’s agency together… idk. and even then, maybe there is something sus about the ai’s agency actually just being entirely repackaging of copyrighted fragments. There are a few AI visual art regenerators out there that are entirely trained on uncopyrighted stuff, and I personally find their output much less, idk, let’s just say bad (edit: as in, their output looks less distorted/oversaturated/hyperstimuli/disneydystopia/strange) than other stuff. but really, I just want humans involved. I want to see what their souls make if they put in the time to do it, not the funhouse mirror of their souls make. If there really isn’t time or money, I won’t completely object to AI art, but… I don’t feel shy saying that, though I am not world class, I am muchmuchmuchmuch better at thepartsofmusicalartthatIcareabout than any AI music generator.
fwiw I am also feeling some stuff about this (having been involved with some of the music generation process).
I’m hoping to write up some more thoughts soon, but I’m still kinda confused about it.
I also feel similarly weird about the AI generated visual art on the website. It’s like… I like ai generated visual art a lot, and in a utopia I’d hope to keep getting to use the current era of ais, because it’s fun to get the art style of “ai that doesn’t quite get it but is trying and fucks up a lot”. but it’s when that is used by humans to replace something they would have had to commission a human in order to get before… well, maybe it’s cheaper and fits in a tight budget, but maybe the budget for human generated art simply should be higher, in order to actualize the value of humans making art? similarly I don’t dislike the idea of ai being used as a tool to make music… but when one outsources artistic agency to an ai rather than tightly winding your and the ai’s agency together… idk. and even then, maybe there is something sus about the ai’s agency actually just being entirely repackaging of copyrighted fragments. There are a few AI visual art regenerators out there that are entirely trained on uncopyrighted stuff, and I personally find their output much less, idk, let’s just say bad (edit: as in, their output looks less distorted/oversaturated/hyperstimuli/disneydystopia/strange) than other stuff. but really, I just want humans involved. I want to see what their souls make if they put in the time to do it, not the funhouse mirror of their souls make. If there really isn’t time or money, I won’t completely object to AI art, but… I don’t feel shy saying that, though I am not world class, I am much much much much better at the parts of musical art that I care about than any AI music generator.