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Ryan Clark's avatar

This makes me kind of depressed. What is the future of art going to look like? What will happen to future artists?

There's a new "Nirvana" song on YouTube called "Drowned in the Sun" that was created by A.I. Honestly, it sounds more like Bush than Nirvana, but here's the thing -- it's pretty damn good. It's been playing repeatedly in my head for days.

Honestly, as a guy approaching middle age who lived his first 40 or so years in a world that didn't have any decent A.I.-generated art, the future is looking kind of...cold. And that freaks me out more than a little.

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Brad & Butter's avatar

> And yet that line was written by a thing that never loved, saw, nor heard. It was never told, and it never told. It never experienced a day in its life.

In some sense, the human aggregate (call it "god" or "devil" if you are mad) is talking, and it captures the pain and love of all the people that has existed, into a single encapsulated recording. Much like the Bible and other canonical works, this shall become revolutionary, and an epicenter on future meaning. The pure consumer shall end, and the creatives, through assistive creativity, shall prosper and be immortalized.

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