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>> The entertainment industry will be transformed drastically. Music and movies will be transformed by AI to such an extent that the next generation will find it hard to believe how the industry operated.

As someone who was very worried about how this would impact artistic output I've started to change my mind. It seems younger people are extremely sensitive to AI content and happy to call out anything that could conceivably be generated by AI as slop. People want real art created by real people with real skill. They want to be able to connect with their art and connect with them in person. The muzak industry is in trouble but I no longer think music in general will be replaced by AI. We'll see improvements to software instruments, plugins etc but AI improving the tools is a different prospect than fully AI generated music.

I disagree. In my experience the best art is almost always created or at least masterminded by a single person or small team. AI will allow these visionaries to create high fidelity content without engaging with the Hollywood machine. I view it as an incredible democratization of art that will allow the best ideas to rise in conjunction with apps like tiktok that are quickly able to find the most entertaining content posted by anyone and share it widely.

In music I think its similar to the claim that people using samples arent real musicians. Its a take many will have, but many others will have no problem enjoying stuff created with the help of AI.

Yeah, the "call out AI in solidarity with working artists" thing is a fad. All Hollywood or anybody else has to do to get around that impulse is present AI-based content as indie production for whom there was never any question of hiring people to make everything by hand. That's the narrative small business has always used to garner sympathy despite poor working conditions and compensation: we either cut corners or we don't exist at all. And with AI media there will immediately be a trade-off of technical quality in favor of quirky creativity, which will humanize the first critically lauded generation of AI film, etc. and ultimately neutralize the prevailing squeamishness for overtly AI generated content.

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