(Some might believe that most people are mediocre, and their music would end up bland and similar to each other’s — but if no one else is in the feedback loop, how could that even happen? And if it did, what would this neutral, universally human music look like? A folk song from Borneo? Classical music? Hip-hop?)
This doesn’t seem like the default to me. The default is AI companies that do centralized work trying to make a good product. All the users are in the feedback loop. Some customization to individual users is valuable, but the prior that’s been developed through interaction with lots of people is going to do a ton of the work. Your intuition that music becomes super-individualized seems based on an intuition that the AI customization “grows with you”, going deep down a rabbit hole over years. This doesn’t seem like the sort of thing the companies are incentivized to create. The experience to new users is much more important for adoption.
This doesn’t seem like the default to me. The default is AI companies that do centralized work trying to make a good product. All the users are in the feedback loop. Some customization to individual users is valuable, but the prior that’s been developed through interaction with lots of people is going to do a ton of the work. Your intuition that music becomes super-individualized seems based on an intuition that the AI customization “grows with you”, going deep down a rabbit hole over years. This doesn’t seem like the sort of thing the companies are incentivized to create. The experience to new users is much more important for adoption.