"And you are obligated to subscribe? Just don't listen."
I subscribe to hear music made by human beings known as musicians. Who yes, use tools, but have actual human profiles and stories. We're not talking about artists using AI. We're talking about "AI Artists" who are pushed onto playlists by Spotify, where they will then have to pay less royalties. You can't "opt out" of AI fake artists, you can only individually block them as you discover them.
The idea that anyone could seriously claim it would be "better" to have something generated completely artificially truly makes my head ache. You're telling me that what real human beings make isn't good enough, and that one day, something better than actual human spirit and labor will make superior music that's based in no reality whatsoever. Just an amalgamation of what came before it. That to me is dystopia. Hendrix and Dylan played guitars. Artists programmed and tweaked the Moog and the 808. Human beings were in charge of the tools and bent them to their will. The tools were not the "artists" and did not generate out of thin air or automated "learning."
You've shown some empathy to people of faith, and the work of K-Love and the team at EMF. So ponder this..(especially if you personally believe in a higher power.)
Can AI have a spiritual experience? Should AI be making music about God or Jesus, something it literally can't believe in or have a relationship with? Should AI be on the other end of that phone when listeners call EMF for prayer, because their answer would be "better" than the flawed human being actually answering that call and speaking from the heart? Maybe AI can preach the sermons too. Why pay ministers for the human connection, when AI can do it all "better." How about AI politicians? They'd be very rational, not slip up on the campaign trail. Technically administer things. Maybe we should just let them rule because they're "better" than the ones that say stupid things, give in to corruption or have affairs.
David, you undeniably know radio, and I'm sure you're a decent person, but I don't get why anyone would advocate for this sort of dystopia. At what price our souls? Music, speech, writing, these things are human expressions of human experiences and feelings. AI will never have that. Even if it's on some technical level "better." Maybe you feel differently, but I don't want to live in a society where all things human are simply usurped by a better technology.
TOOLS are one thing. But behind the tools should be a craftsperson. If we deny that certain things are sacred, then what's the point of existence? To sit in a world where AI does all of the things that make being alive emotional, fulfilling, difficult, meaningful, bring growth and connection between people and cultures...just feels cold and evil. And there's no amount of money that would make me feel differently, because even if I had Musk level wealth, in that society, the things I'd want to use it to support and enjoy would be gone.
I'm sorry if this comes across as cranky or eccentric. But I happen to enjoy the real world, and the one to come if this goes to its logical conclusion as you describe, is not one of hope, joy or humanity. And for someone raised in and passionate about the world of radio, which is human communication, be it talk or music, and who's bonded and gotten so much joy (and pain) from that, I don't think it's for me. Some values are worth defending.
I subscribe to hear music made by human beings known as musicians. Who yes, use tools, but have actual human profiles and stories. We're not talking about artists using AI. We're talking about "AI Artists" who are pushed onto playlists by Spotify, where they will then have to pay less royalties. You can't "opt out" of AI fake artists, you can only individually block them as you discover them.
The idea that anyone could seriously claim it would be "better" to have something generated completely artificially truly makes my head ache. You're telling me that what real human beings make isn't good enough, and that one day, something better than actual human spirit and labor will make superior music that's based in no reality whatsoever. Just an amalgamation of what came before it. That to me is dystopia. Hendrix and Dylan played guitars. Artists programmed and tweaked the Moog and the 808. Human beings were in charge of the tools and bent them to their will. The tools were not the "artists" and did not generate out of thin air or automated "learning."
You've shown some empathy to people of faith, and the work of K-Love and the team at EMF. So ponder this..(especially if you personally believe in a higher power.)
Can AI have a spiritual experience? Should AI be making music about God or Jesus, something it literally can't believe in or have a relationship with? Should AI be on the other end of that phone when listeners call EMF for prayer, because their answer would be "better" than the flawed human being actually answering that call and speaking from the heart? Maybe AI can preach the sermons too. Why pay ministers for the human connection, when AI can do it all "better." How about AI politicians? They'd be very rational, not slip up on the campaign trail. Technically administer things. Maybe we should just let them rule because they're "better" than the ones that say stupid things, give in to corruption or have affairs.
David, you undeniably know radio, and I'm sure you're a decent person, but I don't get why anyone would advocate for this sort of dystopia. At what price our souls? Music, speech, writing, these things are human expressions of human experiences and feelings. AI will never have that. Even if it's on some technical level "better." Maybe you feel differently, but I don't want to live in a society where all things human are simply usurped by a better technology.
TOOLS are one thing. But behind the tools should be a craftsperson. If we deny that certain things are sacred, then what's the point of existence? To sit in a world where AI does all of the things that make being alive emotional, fulfilling, difficult, meaningful, bring growth and connection between people and cultures...just feels cold and evil. And there's no amount of money that would make me feel differently, because even if I had Musk level wealth, in that society, the things I'd want to use it to support and enjoy would be gone.
I'm sorry if this comes across as cranky or eccentric. But I happen to enjoy the real world, and the one to come if this goes to its logical conclusion as you describe, is not one of hope, joy or humanity. And for someone raised in and passionate about the world of radio, which is human communication, be it talk or music, and who's bonded and gotten so much joy (and pain) from that, I don't think it's for me. Some values are worth defending.