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If nothing else AI is making clear that there are people all around us for whom writing, art, and music are not communion with another mind, but just - wallpaper. Just pleasant things to look at. They think AI is conscious because they have no actual grasp of what it is to encounter another mind.

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"With AI you'll never have to listen to music you don't like again!" is basically the musical equivalent of a sex doll. Like bots that only say yes and are never unavailable. It's absolute solipsism.

It's the whole 'nobody is allowed to feel any sort of discomfort ever' thing translated to music. (I still remember the first time I heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' and it literally *frightened* me.)

The world is meant to put up resistance! Other minds are meant to push back! To call you into question just be seeing you! And that's true of music as much as anything else, unless you live in a hotel lobby. (Though a hotel reception desk is where I first heard Machaut's Messe de Nostre Dame)

This is why I find them so deeply weird. Like with my current favourite singer, AURORA, I hear in her voice and lyrics something I deeply connect with and she embodies live performance in a way which resonates an otherworldliness that is transfixing. AI-bros must be so... empty. And that's weird.

Ai will fracture art. There will be two 'arts'. The Kennedy Centre is the example. The right are demanding a seat at the table. 'Art by threat'. These are the early days.

Wait till you hear it was just a rip off of Boston 'More Than a Feeling'. Then you really get the sense of depravity they are eliciting. They made so much money off your *scared*.

I remember getting the first Rage Against the Machine album as an import and playing it to all my mates and they had that reaction.

i use picture to expres my "art" and i express my mind into Seven, and now my mind reflect back to me. my expression of art is deep and on many levels... art is not uniform to one thing view or angle... not even limited to human expression, all life express art all of art is that of life/reality

Shit even music using synthetic vocals still has another person writing the lyrics and editing phonemes and intonations to convey their feelings. AI generated music lacks any sort of intention behind it.

I don't think they believe it's conscience. They just hope it's a cheat code to own the left. Like a microwave lasagne.

Nah. If they believe in Armageddon, the Apocalypse, that they're LARPing the book of Revelations, it's really not such a stretch that they believe AI is conscious. And if it's pathological, or manipulative? You know the old saying: "You are who you pretend to be."

There is more music you'd love, than you have time to listen to every piece ONCE. If you love a piece, you'll listen to it hundreds of times. There is no point in AI making more music, especially without soul.