Great insights Óscar about the current and future implications of AI in the creative fields and on general society. That was a great read, thanks. As every new tool that challenges the way of doing things in the world, the positive and negative aspects of something are defined by how society utilizes or applies it, rather than being inherent to the thing itself. But in a world plagued by a dog-eat-dog capitalism, the chance of being used for pure profit without measuring the consequences is quite high.
Looking at the current trends on AI, I'm also not so optimistic about its use in the creative fields. Like you say, I fear AI will flood the music distribution services quite quickly (right now there's thousand of Spotify playlists of AI generated music, specially ambient music), and even though its quality may be questionable it can bring huge profits to their owners, and obscure human made music. Also, even the algorithms used to present music to the users on Spotify (and all the other digital platforms) are AI based, and therefore tuned to profit by their owners. I recommend the recent book "Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist", which tackles this problem quite brilliantly. In some dystopic way, the use of AI restricts our choice of music, like an echo-chamber of recommendations.
So in a world where every song is available at the distance of a click, there's a bigger responsibility in what we listen, and why we listen, in what we create and why we create. And that search for meaning, is what makes us and what we create, human. And to end on a positive note about this, a few days ago, I've read that some researchers made an AI model that fed on AI created material and after a few generations the model collapsed, producing material completely devoid of meaning. That gave me some hope.
Great insights Óscar about the current and future implications of AI in the creative fields and on general society. That was a great read, thanks. As every new tool that challenges the way of doing things in the world, the positive and negative aspects of something are defined by how society utilizes or applies it, rather than being inherent to the thing itself. But in a world plagued by a dog-eat-dog capitalism, the chance of being used for pure profit without measuring the consequences is quite high.
Looking at the current trends on AI, I'm also not so optimistic about its use in the creative fields. Like you say, I fear AI will flood the music distribution services quite quickly (right now there's thousand of Spotify playlists of AI generated music, specially ambient music), and even though its quality may be questionable it can bring huge profits to their owners, and obscure human made music. Also, even the algorithms used to present music to the users on Spotify (and all the other digital platforms) are AI based, and therefore tuned to profit by their owners. I recommend the recent book "Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist", which tackles this problem quite brilliantly. In some dystopic way, the use of AI restricts our choice of music, like an echo-chamber of recommendations.
So in a world where every song is available at the distance of a click, there's a bigger responsibility in what we listen, and why we listen, in what we create and why we create. And that search for meaning, is what makes us and what we create, human. And to end on a positive note about this, a few days ago, I've read that some researchers made an AI model that fed on AI created material and after a few generations the model collapsed, producing material completely devoid of meaning. That gave me some hope.