[sodapopcan]

It's not asinine at all. Context matters in art. Otherwise, more songs exist that I would probably really like than I will ever hear, so I'm going to focus on the human-made ones. Besides, part of the joy of music extends beyond listening. For many people, myself included, if we feel really connected to a song we like to learn about the people who created it.

[jatora]

Context doesnt matter in all art. Sunset, aurora borealis, waterfall, clear night skies, etc. These are devoid of a creator and have beauty nonetheless. While they aren't "art", they evoke the exact same brain centers, which means the creator can be factored out of our enjoyment of external stimuli. And you can follow that chain of reasoning to a more rational stance on AI and art in general.

[sodapopcan]

> Context doesnt matter in all art. Sunset, aurora borealis, waterfall, clear night skies, etc. These are devoid of a creator and have beauty nonetheless.

I'm sure the religious fundamentalists would have something to say about that XD I'm not one, though, but I don't much appreciate the framing of needing a more "rational" stance here as it kind of signals bad faith to me. There is nothing emotional about worrying about artists' livelihood which has already been under attack for decades before LLMs existed. I'm not saying that one HAS to derive (additional) enjoyment from the presence of a creator. I listen to plenty of human-produced music where I don't care about the artist but these are always songs that I listen to for a short period of time then never think about again. And of course this goes way beyond just who the creator is as a person, it's also about what they inflict into the art itself: the unique vocal inflections, odd ways someone play's an instrument, how they perform it... but that's getting more into this than I meant to when I started typing what I thought would be two sentences, lol.

Anyway, I'm also not saying that people can't enjoy generated output, I'm just not going to support it. Especially since there is still always a person behind it who is maybe going to benefit from people listening to it. No thank you.