It's really depressing that I have gotten into music composition right when this is happening.

All of these projects are basically just destroying entire fields of human creativity.

It doesn't seem so bad at first when the quality is mediocre, but as soon as they get good, then any human composition will be completely devalued, despite the enormous amount of knowledge, skill and effort that goes into producing one.

A composer who writes a piece of music themselves, instead of being recognised and admired basically becomes the equivalent of someone who bakes their own sourdough instead of going to the supermarket: a curiosity, someone who does things the hard way for their own amusement.

Graphic artists and bloggers were the first to suffer this, but it feels like it's just going to happen to basically every type of creative expression that can be represented digitally. It's just a question of how many months until that happens.

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bit-rot 41 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I'm also saddened by the impact of tech on creative industries. But art always was something you do for yourself and to share with others, for some fundamentally human experience. Could an AI pray for you or ride your bike? I don't know anyone in my personal life who wants to listen to AI music, view AI art, or read AI books. I wish art careers were easier, but I don't think a career alone is the right reason to make art.

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tuckerconnelly 42 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Much like the restaurant industry, creative industries will probably bifurcate. Cheap (AI, drivethrough, takeout) for daily and most use cases, experiential (vinyl records, concerts, upscale restaurants) for special occasions, connoisseurs.

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CuriouslyC an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Who cares? The world is being handed an infinite creation machine that conjures entire worlds into existence, radically reshaping the future of the species and what our descendants will be able to do, and your reply is ~"they took our jobs!"

Figure out how to stand on the shoulders of giants like any of your predecessors of note.

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Scaevolus an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Engineers understand that every technology represents inherent tradeoffs.

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chabes an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They’re talking about creative expression, not jobs

	▲	augment_me 3 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		You are free to perform create expression, I love writing blogs, my friends like reading and talking about the blogs with me, I dont care if Claude or GPT can write much better blogs. In the same way if it was just about creative expression, there would actually be 0 problems with AI-generated music, you would keep on making and listening to music you like, and you wouldn't care, but usually its not it, its people who want to make money, get famous, tie their value to the product that complain about this.
	▲	yulker an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		But is it stopping creative expression?

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applfanboysbgon an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

It's being handed an infinite slop machine, drowning out genuinely good content and making it harder than ever to discover. As it becomes harder to discover, fewer talented creatives are able to make a living. We are destroying our own culture with a machine that enforces regression to the mean on creativity.