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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.

"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)

What hotel was playing such a banger?

Can't imagine what the guests thought. It's not exactly Tony Bennett is it