CEO of AI Music Company Says People Don't Like Making Music

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16. The part of the podcast interview that is mentioned in the article's headline is within a few of minutes of 22:17 in...

...this video. The actual quote is shortly after 23:17, but starting at the earlier time index gives more context to the answer:

When Shulman talks about game theory and all of the players, it seems that he is really saying that his company should not be destroyed (i.e., it is all about his self-interest, not about giving people the joy of creating music).

It may seem alarmist, but the future of AI runs the risk of flooding the arts with insipid and uninspired trash in the form of boilerplate poetry, literature, and music. So much of that could be created at such a low cost and with such rapidity that it might nearly completely devalue the art that some artists are struggling to make and from which they also hope to make a living. People have a limited capacity to experience music and other arts: if all potential listeners are overwhelmed by AI-generated trash, that might be another way in which human art may be destroyed and displaced. This seems to be headed in the same direction as Lyft/Uber/Airbnb in that some people have decided that there is a market to disrupt and that they should be the ones to profit from the destruction of whatever conventions currently apply in it. It might not be enough to prevent the flooding and saturation of the art world, but perhaps no AI-generated object should be granted any form of IP rights: that might be enough to take the profit out of endeavors such as Shulman's.