u/AgentCirceLuna

This sub is made for poking fun at people who say artistic standards have fallen, music is getting crappier, or art is dead. However, with the rise of AI, many are against the new lazier form of creating media due to the fact it looks tacky, it’s stolen art, and it’s being used all over the place. I’m included in that opinion. On the other hand, that’s the very line of thought that people believing ‘music is dead! Bieber is lame!’ believed and you have to remember that many of the pop groups in the 2000s-present have succeeded due to bankrolling from companies or nepotism - newer artists are failing to becoming big or breakout because the same fifteen-twenty people are constantly haunting the charts with new singles or spamming ‘special versions’ of the same record making it impossible for new people to become famous or well-known. It’s not viable for anyone to go into music now, really, unless they have a lot of money or want to take a huge risk. That was true in the past, but someone could still do pretty well booking corporate gigs or being a local touring musician. Even that seems ludicrously expensive now and entertainment could just be replaced with AI in theory which would replace musicians with the push of a button and a prompt.

It does cause some reflection, though, as we need to consider whether we’re not just the same as Socrates trying to claim writing would ruin the mind and destroy memory. What if this new form of creation turns out to be something good, once it’s mastered, rather than a waste of time? If you look at some Ancient Greek plays from when writing was a new form of expression, they are actually quite crude and more rudimentary than you’d expect; Aristophanes Clouds has a line saying ‘I farted so much I shit my pants’ which wouldn’t be out of place in an episode of Family Guy.

I probably lost my train of thought here but wondered if anyone was willing to discuss this. My opinion is one of open-mindedness so I’m just curious. I don’t use AI myself as I feel it’s cheating but am I not just being a crank by doing so?