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That's really fricking sad. It'll come for music next I guess.
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If your art is so soulless that an AI can easily replace you then you're not really an artist.
Obviously I don't think people like this should live in poverty: that's why I support UBI for anybody who is displaced by AI. But it's hard to feel sympathy for these buttholes when I was talking about UBI fifteen years ago when wagie service workers were losing their jobs and many of these "artists" were like "who cares, they should learn to code."
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hopefully it forces humans to git gud and really distinguish themselves.
Part of me believes that technology won't take over the way people say it will. Could be cope it feels like it'd be too much of an endeavour given the complexity of the world, peoples' responses, predictions always being wrong etc. It seems even less likely than world communism.
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AI can do a lot of things, but I've never seen it do anything with true artistic merit. It can master the technical elements, but it doesn't seem to understand subtext
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Yeah the AI is coming for all the jobs eventually. UBI has to come sooner or later. Pity Andrew Yang isn't credible as a President, but at least people are recognizing that UBI is now a mainstream idea. Either that or we all get our brains upgraded with AI to compete.
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Why not both? Just because you're getting that sweet UBI doesn't mean you can't cybermaxx
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or maybe video games are, in fact, not a real artform, and not to be seen as music and paintings are to be seen.
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You can't embezzle money with vidya you can with paintings, and music has been souless algorithm schlock for a long time. The machines have already won
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The moment an AI replicates Florence Welch's singing and songwriting is when we know humanity has truly lost. Or won depending on how you see it.
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The arc of history is humanity being the necessary and eventually outdated precursor to AI
Legacy humans taking the L
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Music has already fallen into a "solved" equation created by computer-assisted algorithms for well over a decade. Most of the songs you see on the top 100 billboard for years now, and most of the music "made" by famous artists like Taylor Swift, were all written by one person who came up with the music solution.
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