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from the is-it-live-or-is-it-Auto-Tune? dept.
Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve has become a woke, sanitized shell of its former self. The crowd of rowdy, inebriated locals and tourists is long gone. What you see now is bouncing and screaming for the latest flash-in-the-pan artists while industry veterans like Duran Duran barely elicit a cheer.
Youtuber and music industry veteran Rick Beato recently posted an interesting video on how Auto-Tune has destroyed popular music. Beato quotes from an interview he did with Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan where the latter stated, "AI systems will completely dominate music. The idea of an intuitive artist beating an AI system is going to be very difficult." AI is making inroads into visual art as well, and hackers, artists and others seem to be embracing it with enthusiasm.
AI seems to be everywhere lately, from retrofitting decades old manufacturing operations to online help desk shenanigans to a wearable assistant to helping students cheat. Experts are predicting AI to usher in the next cyber security crisis and the end of programming as we know it.
Will there be a future where AI can and will do everything? Where artists are judged on their talents with a keyboard/mouse instead of a paintbrush or guitar? And what about those of us who will be developing the systems AI uses to produce stuff? Will tomorrow's artist be the programming genius who devises a profound algorithm that can produce stuff faster, or more eye/ear-appealing, where everything is completely computerized and lacking any humanity? Beato makes a good point in his video on auto-tune, that most people don't notice when something has been digitally altered, and quite frankly, they don't care either.
Will the "purists" among us be disparaged and become the new "Boomers"? What do you think?.
(Score: 2) by deimios on Monday January 09 2023, @06:12AM (2 children)
The purpose of copyright was to assure compensation for creators so that they are encouraged to create more.
Now it became more about control.
You cannot stand on the copyrighted shoulder of giants.
Still we have nothing better right now.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 09 2023, @12:39PM (1 child)
"The purpose of copyright was to assure compensation for creators "
So why aren't there more rich musicians and authors?
The purpose of copyright was to eliminate copycats diluting the revenue stream of publishers
who bought manuscripts and music rights to create artificial scarcity
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 09 2023, @01:19PM
As a knowledge worker, it's almost impossible for me to get any recurring benefit for the knowledge I create. It is owned by whoever paid my one-time wages. In that respect, the creative industry is better off. When I started I figured I could work hard and get a few patents that would supplement earned income, but really that doesn't happen. Corporations trade licenses to use intellectual property, cutting knowledge workers out of any financial benefit from their work. But I get to wear my own clothes on casual Friday. Yay.