Originally Posted by nForsterly
I'll never accept that AI can replace a human in any art. Real music is about soul. AI doesn't have it.
True, but a lot of popular music/art has no soul.

I say AI can't produce great art (yet), but people will buy B.S. if they are told it's great art.

I saw a documentary about a woman who, as a gag gift, bought the ugliest picture she could find at a yard sale, and gave it to her friend. It looked like a painter's drop cloth.

Someone told her friend it looked like a Jackson Pollock. So she took it to dealer after dealer, museum after museum, and was told that it wasn't great art as it didn't have the Pollock soul.

She removed the frame and saw a fingerprint, and had that analyzed. Turns out it was Pollock's fingerprint, with the same paint as one of the colors on the painting. All of a sudden, this worthless piece of crap became great art, and she sold it for a huge sum of money.

In the art world, what the influencers say is more important than the work itself. To me, that's a sad state of affairs.

So if a soulless AI or human produced song is told by enough of the right people that it's great art, 90% of the public will believe it's great art.

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