My last 4 songs from people were AI

I think drbill 's mention earlier of the issues with Meta are a perfect case in point of this👍🏽

A few weeks ago I remembered that I didn't previously mention AI chess programs defeating the world champion as far back as 1997. Deep Blue it was called. Even though these AI programs have always won based on what I just read, we still have a very vibrant chess community with huge tournaments. The AI could think way more moves ahead of time than these world champs. While I need to do more reading, it seems to me that people don't find chess to be a pointless pursuit despite the fact that they'll never defeat the AI programs. At least not until they augment their brains with AI themselves. Maybe there's still some money in it today?

My view of the music situation is that so many other emerging technologies will radically increase the quality of life and decrease costs that we won't really need much money. I still think we'll see UBI. Devaluing music was the first shoe to drop with the Internet. Never did I imagine that so many people would behave like greedy animals and just start downloading everything for free. Especially when it was 128 mp3s. It's something that started to decimate civility in society. This feral quality has continued to spread throughout society the more the Internet gives people the opportunity to behave that way.

I've thought of what the banks will do to entice people to not default on their mortgages left and right once 3d printed houses and other new things become the norm. Same with car loans once Waymo rideshares and similar take over. They'll have to offer people the opportunity to restructure into way lower payments, forgive some of the loans, all kinds of stuff. There's going to be a big transition. No need for food scarcity either. Perfect lab-grown meat and other innovations. Beyond that, you could see new things that are just pure and don't have anything the body can't use.

Trying to go backwards is just futile and not possible. AI is going to be automating a lot more than music jobs. Music is going to have a new role. It served a bigger role back when the average person had no voice. A lot of it was just capturing the time it was made in and used by people to cope with living in that time period. If Chess is not obsolete, music is probably safe to some degree. It's just a question of it people will want to bother with it once new options like full-immersion VR start popping up.

I'm not convinced that the blacksmith analogy works for creative song composition. Horses as a mode of transportation gave way to the blacksmith as salesperson, went from one who actually made something to a person that doesn't. There was and is an art and a craft to manipulating the steel to seam to the idea of form following function, the salesperson only manipulating a person to see it his/her way and to sell a product, though which is a craft unto itself in which one must cannive to do so. Writing novel music, throwing artful pots or painting a masterpiece is not low tech and cannot and should not be replaced by artifical means. Just because a group codes for machine learning and can sell the idea that the masses can be themselves creative producers by brilliantly prompting a certain software program to crunch numbers and spit out a collage of previous works with no actual relationship to lived experience is an unfortunate reality and one which will in mostly decimate the recording industry to the fewer and fewer professionals than even in this now most limited incarnation. Just imagine when they take all the sonic signatures of the collective works of say Brian Wilson or Mutt Lange as well as all the great producers, the songs of every great artist you can think of and created algorithms that would write, use the digitized A list musicians, mix, master and even automatically create cover artwork and post the results. It is happening as we speak. 

The end is nigh!

I’m just referencing something Bannon has talked about at length, and is very proud of. Not really meaning to put my stamp on it; I’m mentioning it in the context of the difficult information environment all of us exist in.

It’s a GD mess out there.

Every one of us trying to navigate it has my sympathy.

George Benson never promotes a Pawn to a Queen.

He wants you to...
Give him the Knight!*
Chris
*Warning: Chessparov knows scores of bad chess jokes.

Funny update: I just got invited to speak at an event that is sponsored by Suno AI.

WTF.

What's next for the next Olympics?
Suno Wrestling?

I wasn't implying that those who sell pro audio are conniving, but rather car salesmen!

I'd take my phone with me, think what I wanted to say, speak it into your chatGPT app, and then read it back verbatim.  And work your way through your talk like that.  Get to the end, and ask how everyone liked it.

Much like the musical evolution of Taylor Swift.
Or Hannah Montana becomes Smiley Cyrus.
Homer's* Odyssey is Drivng Miss Daisy in comparison.
Chris
*From that old Greek guy Eric.
NOT Homer Simpson.

Speech as performance art. Love it!

But you could actually just have ChatGPT read it out loud, and hold the mic up to the phone. You could even tell it to read in a sophisticated posh British accent to make it sound smarter. Even if this were just the first 5 mins of the talk, it would demonstrate something.