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<blockquote data-quote="M.T. Black" data-source="post: 9816850" data-attributes="member: 6782171">&quot;I don't know much about art, but I know what I like&quot; is the most authentic statement about art criticism ever made. If you prefer the AI-gen music to most of the human-gen music, then that's what you like. Some of my creative colleagues like to claim they've never seen anything of artistic value in AI-gen material, but I think that's a naive statement. Whether it can ever be considered &quot;good art&quot;, I don't know. But I'm certain AI can generate stuff that people like and respond to. When I was a teenager, I was in a garage band in Sydney in the 80s. Even then, we despised &quot;manufactured&quot; music - there was a group of producers called Stock-Aitkin-Waterman (SAW) who churned out hit after hit following strict musical formulas and recent advances in music tech, such as sythesizers, drum machines, and computer mixing. They literally called themselves &quot;The Hit Factory.&quot; Their best known song is probably &quot;Never Gonna Give You Up.&quot;To us as 17 year olds, it was plain that we were making &quot;authentic&quot; music and SAW were churning out synthetic bile. In a weird way, we blamed them for our lack of success. With hindsight, I realize something more likely - our &quot;authentic songs&quot; just weren't very good. And these days, I don't mind tapping my toe along to an old SAW hit either. In about 20 years, I suspect that AI-generated art/music will be as uncontroversial as drum machines are now.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="M.T. Black, post: 9816850, member: 6782171"] "I don't know much about art, but I know what I like" is the most authentic statement about art criticism ever made. If you prefer the AI-gen music to most of the human-gen music, then that's what you like. Some of my creative colleagues like to claim they've never seen anything of artistic value in AI-gen material, but I think that's a naive statement. Whether it can ever be considered "good art", I don't know. But I'm certain AI can generate stuff that people like and respond to. When I was a teenager, I was in a garage band in Sydney in the 80s. Even then, we despised "manufactured" music - there was a group of producers called Stock-Aitkin-Waterman (SAW) who churned out hit after hit following strict musical formulas and recent advances in music tech, such as sythesizers, drum machines, and computer mixing. They literally called themselves "The Hit Factory." Their best known song is probably "Never Gonna Give You Up." To us as 17 year olds, it was plain that we were making "authentic" music and SAW were churning out synthetic bile. In a weird way, we blamed them for our lack of success. With hindsight, I realize something more likely - our "authentic songs" just weren't very good. And these days, I don't mind tapping my toe along to an old SAW hit either. In about 20 years, I suspect that AI-generated art/music will be as uncontroversial as drum machines are now. [/QUOTE]

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