Anyway, in such a world some people would probably evolve music that is much more interesting to the public
I wouldn’t be so sure.
I think the current diversity of music is largely caused by artists’ different lived experiences. You feel something, this is important for you, you try to express that via music. As long as AIs don’t have anything like “unique experiences” on the scale of humans, I’m not sure if they’ll be able to create music that is that diverse (and thus interesting).
I assume the scenario you described, not a personal AI trained on all your life. With that, it could work.
(Note that I mostly think about small bands, not popular-music-optimised-for-wide-publicity).
With current music AI, the AI isn’t at all trained on my life and has no soul of its own, but I still get to ask it for music that’s specific to my interests.
I think the current diversity of music is largely caused by artists’ different lived experiences. You feel something, this is important for you, you try to express that via music. As long as AIs don’t have anything like “unique experiences” on the scale of humans, I’m not sure if they’ll be able to create music that is that diverse (and thus interesting).
If the AI customized it for each listener (and does a good job), then music will reflect the unique experiences of the listeners, which would result in a more diverse range of music than music that only reflects the unique experiences of musicians.
Of course, we could end up in an awkward middle ground where AI only generates variations on a successful pop music formula, and it all becomes a bland mush. But I think in that case, people would just go back to human-generated music on Spotify and YouTube.
I wouldn’t be so sure.
I think the current diversity of music is largely caused by artists’ different lived experiences. You feel something, this is important for you, you try to express that via music. As long as AIs don’t have anything like “unique experiences” on the scale of humans, I’m not sure if they’ll be able to create music that is that diverse (and thus interesting).
I assume the scenario you described, not a personal AI trained on all your life. With that, it could work.
(Note that I mostly think about small bands, not popular-music-optimised-for-wide-publicity).
With current music AI, the AI isn’t at all trained on my life and has no soul of its own, but I still get to ask it for music that’s specific to my interests.
If the AI customized it for each listener (and does a good job), then music will reflect the unique experiences of the listeners, which would result in a more diverse range of music than music that only reflects the unique experiences of musicians.
Of course, we could end up in an awkward middle ground where AI only generates variations on a successful pop music formula, and it all becomes a bland mush. But I think in that case, people would just go back to human-generated music on Spotify and YouTube.