A provoking thought i keep having.
Since “ai” (id rather call it just an aggregator/scraper but yeah) is just taking input from everything humans have done on the internet and spitting out an amalgamation, how exactly can we say its any different from an average musician who has influences from hundreds if not thousands of bands?
There’s many, many, songs out there that you can tell are inspired by others. How can you differentiate this from prompting the slop generator to “make a song similar to x artist and throw in some drum parts similar to y artist”. I myself definitely know the music I write has a sound to it that can be traced to a lot of groups I listen to, even if I just sit down and start writing I will naturally sometimes come up with something that sounds similar to music id been really into that week, for example. Of course I notice this and then work to change it up if possible, and many times others dont even hear the same influence I did in the end!
The only difference i can think of is, if you took a human baby, put them on an island with no music and a caretaker, and gave them a piano, they would create something. Of course a computer could never do this.
Peaceful discussion if we can. 🙂
This is not a provoking thought. This is tediously well-worn ground that was tossed out on its ass as facetious in the early days of AI slop intruding into things.
The difference is one of intentionality. The human work has intent. It may badly reflect that intent because of lack of physical skills or compositional incompetence or such, but in the end, even in the bad art, there was intent.
LLMbeciles and other degenerative AI forms have no ability to formulate intent. They’re not putting in “drum parts like Freddie Gruber” because his distinctive swing adds an undefinable swagger to the guitar riffs. They’re mechanically imitating kinda/sorta a Freddie Gruber line because the key words “Freddie Gruber” were tied to a pattern in their maths and they slavishly pulled it out.
As for the “artist” using the LLMbecile or other degenerative AI, they aren’t artists either. They’ve created nothing. At best they’re an art director and a pretty shit one at that.