[pjc50]

To a vegetarian: "just think about how it tastes, don't worry if there's meat in it!"

Really this stuff is accelerating a conflict between two philosophies of life:

- one where neural network A (electric) produces a set of stimuli for neural network B (meat), which in turn causes the meat to press buttons to maximize the stimuli received;

- one where humans seek meaning in the world and connection with other humans.

Now, the second is losing, and has been since the decline in philosophical dualism across the 20th century; but it can still express the concepts of "important" and "meaningful", which have no place in the first worldview at all.

> The _economic fairness_ aspect is another matter

More plainly, as soon as I read the headline about one AI occupying 11 top slots I thought it was obviously being gamed by listen-botting. I don't really know how a system where machines "listen" to other machines in order to extract a small revenue from defrauded advertisers is sustainable, but there it is.

[Ajedi32]

This feels like a false dichotomy to me. You can find meaning and connect with other humans over AI music no differently than you can over music written by a celebrity. (And vice-versa, you can listen to music written by a human and just enjoy it for the sound without finding any particular sense of meaning or connection.)