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Barack Obama: “For elevator music, AI is going to work fine. Music like Bob Dylan or Stevie Wonder, that's different” (musictech.com)
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Barack Obama: “For elevator music, AI is going to work fine. Music like Bob Dylan or Stevie Wonder, that's different”::Barack Obama has weighed in on AI’s impact on music creation in a new interview, saying, “For elevator music, AI is going to work fine”.

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[–] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

He's wrong in the sense that Bob Dylan and Stevie Wonder are just as much cultural reflections as they are artists. Popular art and celebrity are effectively inseparable. This is why each generation often doesn't "get" the popular art of others.

The reality is that there's nothing stopping an AI from becoming a celebrity, and I'm a bit surprised it hasn't happened yet. Once that happens, the art it produces will be lauded, and people who are not the direct participants in mainstream popular culture will be confused and in some cases upset or offended by it. And the wheel will continue to turn.

[–] Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago

Very good points. Art is in the eye/ear of the beholder sort of thing and our taste is for sure influenced by our culture/generation.