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The newest AI tools are accelerating basic research and scaring the general public. But many people are simply using them as toys. By Derek Thompson <https://www.theatlantic.com/author/derek-thompson/> The Atlantic APRIL 28, 2023, 7 AM ET Last week, a tiktok user named Ghost-writer used AI voice-emulating technology to make a song that sounded like a collaboration between the artists Drake and The Weekend. The result was surprisingly non-awful. The track blew up on social media, generating hundreds of thousands of listens, before several platforms took it down at the request of the Universal Music Group. Naturally, the AI song triggered a spasm of panicked hermeneutics: What did this strange achievement in synthetic art *mean?* Some observers took <https://www.semafor.com/article/04/18/2023/is-ai-generated-music-legal> things in a dystopian direction. It didn’t take much to imagine a near future where fake songs and real songs intermingled, where, for every authentic Taylor Swift track, the internet was replete with hundreds, thousands, even millions of plausible Taylor Swift knockoffs. Inundated by AI, pop culture would descend into a disinformation hellscape. Alternatively, one could lean into optimism. Ghost-writer (probably) isn’t one of the great musical geniuses of the world, yet here he had produced something catchy. If anonymous internet users can make bangers in their basement using AI, what does that mean for actual hitmakers? Researchers studying the introduction of AI in the game Go have found <https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2214840120> that the rise of superhuman machines has “improved human decision-making” as the top players have learned to incorporate the novel strategies of AI to become more creative players. Similarly, one could imagine the best songwriters in the world honing their skills with a superhuman co-writer. But lately I’ve become a little bored by the utopia-dystopia dichotomy of the AI debate. What if writing a song and dubbing in celebrity voices doesn’t clearly point us toward a disinformation hellscape or a heaven of music-writing creativity? What if the ability to send media that make you sound like a celebrity to your friends is, fundamentally, just kind of neat? As the tech writer Ben Thompson has pointed out <https://stratechery.com/2023/ai-nil-and-zero-trust-authenticity/?access_token=eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsImtpZCI6InN0cmF0ZWNoZXJ5LnBhc3Nwb3J0Lm9ubGluZSIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJhdWQiOiJzdHJhdGVjaGVyeS5wYXNzcG9ydC5vbmxpbmUiLCJlbnQiOnsidXJpIjpbImh0dHBzOi8vc3RyYXRlY2hlcnkuY29tLzIwMjMvYWktbmlsLWFuZC16ZXJvLXRydXN0LWF1dGhlbnRpY2l0eS8iXX0sImV4cCI6MTY4NDMzOTM2MSwiaWF0IjoxNjgxNzQ3MzYxLCJpc3MiOiJodHRwczovL3N0cmF0ZWNoZXJ5LnBhc3Nwb3J0Lm9ubGluZS9vYXV0aCIsInNjb3BlIjoiZmVlZDpyZWFkIGFydGljbGU6cmVhZCBhc3NldDpyZWFkIGNhdGVnb3J5OnJlYWQiLCJzdWIiOiI1ZFVjQ2NLV0FXcktzd0FOUVZ1NkUxIiwidXNlIjoiYWNjZXNzIn0.JLiuVVAq7eSDLCyxwjt0mAReQAV3rfvZSMq9KWVfkyGlR5QIPDjgCP02t2sRj9jLtoegqX5Nyct8xzDwj_tLrKeb-tjIkbngIJov7nF8KgMZ6EzgbMfyZhzyAV--lwUwp4gMomEAZNMLeSGThVs85pu-EtaYwI3eGPNFJA7didjm0C4oVKpfMiclx-apGFtijZxTfQST9MYPbMibaeSwSYY8AuVtLa0rR5RGInqkSgGwzFuwuvTS8HZTK1306__WHHvFE2WI1GRQ_98Beh0CV9TMzP86lgLVxFtSkMn8GqF8giVpsuS2eLyWR9wdXHKCjG6Doh6m21Amn7ilGxSUbw>, artists like Grimes <https://www.npr.org/2023/04/24/1171738670/grimes-ai-songs-voice> and Drake could stand to make a lot of money if they sold licenses of their AI-generated voices and let their fans share little songs with one another, provided that any money made from the music would be split between the original artist and the user. Sure, you might get some surprise bangers. But mostly, you’d get a lot of teenagers recording high-school gossip in the style and voice of Drake. That’s not dystopian or utopian. That’s just the latest funny way to waste time. Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx II https://youtu.be/bgimBXYfaqA A robot from Hanson touring the world and giving interview to newspaper Dina-thanthi KR IRS 28423 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/CAL5XZorb4tB-kO8pHLEf9vdYfykLyH5DBPqq25i_OFDGYA5zbA%40mail.gmail.com.
