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by em-bee 110 days ago
actually, i am not fine with ghostwriters. i am fine with speechwriters, because public speeches are a shared product, so is music. performing someone else's music is normal and probably has been done ever since music existed. in that sense i would also not mind a performance of a song if that song was originally created using AI. if the song and the performance are good that it is no different from performing a traditional song. if you don't like AI music, that's fine, i also don't like every traditional song, but that's not the fault of the performer (beyond choosing a song you don't like). the problem with milli vanilli is that they violated the expectation that we know who the singers are. milli vanilli were dancers, not singers, and if that had been properly communicated, it would have been fine.