[atoav]

Sure. I as a musician that practised for years to play the right note in the right way the right moment will truly appreciate it when the unique style I developed with my band over years of work and sweat will be cloned in mere seconds by a multi-national corporation and their AI. Or it could be a 13 year old teenager that has the AI create music in the style of someone else.

Not that I am against sampling and remixing, but I have yet to see that AI based cloning of music can truly become an artform with it's own merits like sampling has become — or whether it will destroy the filaments of reality to such a degree music will have to become something entirely different than it is now.

What I am sure of, is that those who have power today will find ways to hold that power tomorrow.

[msla]

And I'm sure all of the musicians you "took inspiration from" are happy about you stealing from them.

[dbalatero]

How are you so sure? You've never even heard their music.

[teolandon]

You are not the authority on what counts as an "artform of its own".

I agree with your last statement though.

[atoav]

I am the authority of what counts as an artform of its own — to myself. I mean I also have a MA in arts, so I know about art forms, but I didn't attempt to represent an authority here. So I am sorry if you perceived I was acting as an "authority" when in fect I was speaking a out my very own perspective and nothing more.

[okareaman]

There will be two groups of people: those who figure out how to use AI to their benefit and those who don't

[atoav]

And those who figure it out and still won't benefit, because bigger entites do what bigger entites always did when technological promises loomed at the horizon.