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I'm conflicted but interested in how all this plays out.

Traditionally stories, music, art, dance were mediums for humans to express ideas/culture/transmit stories/history to other humans.

When we get to a point where AI is able to generate an infinite stream of TikTok dances, jazz, film scripts, etc. It will be interesting to see how that affects society.

When you remove the soul, what is/was the point of entertainment?

Interesting times we live in!

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There will certainly be a lot of money to be had selling products and ideologies to the mass consumer via cheap mass-generated hyper-targeted content. That's not too far of a leap from Marvel/Star Wars where 'The Customer Is Always Right' and creative control is made by committees and focus groups.

But real art can survive. Just like art adjusted to photography or music adjusted to recordings, artists will find a way. In the scenario where current art is truly indistinguishable from AI-generated art, artists of the future could e.g. choose in-person forms of artistic expression which exclude AI by design, like live music, live painting, live storytelling, improv, etc.

I think it'll either turn out the soul was latent in the training data, or AI generated art will always be distinguishable. My money is on the first, but we're a little ways away yet.

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