Music Appreciation

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AI cripples them. Quickly makes them dependent on a software crutch.

And to deny that reality, AI companies have engaged in a years-long con game to try to convince the public that AI actually makes people creative, that it "democratizes creativity." And they've also tried to stigmatize real artists - especially the professionals making money from carefully honed skills - as "gatekeepers" trying unfairly to keep every non-artist from "expressing their creativity" by giving a brief prompt to an AI model trained on all the copyrighted work the AI companies could steal.

Sadly, some people are gullible and/or vain enough to fall for that BS, and they flood the internet with what they try to claim as "their" creations, when they no more made what was AI-generated than they cooked a meal or sewed a clothing item they ordered.

I've seen people on X argue that they should be sympathized with when they generate AI slop because their parents didn't buy them guitars or other instruments when they were young, so all they're doing is using a new tool to catch up with all those privileged musicians who actually learned to play music. That's the democratization argument: "How dare artists have skills I don't have? I'll show them I'm just as creative with AI!"

The AI bros are offering us a world where everyone can pretend to create art, though they really can't. Pretend to write well, though they really can't. Pretend to code, though they really can't. Pretend to have knowledge they don't have. Pretend to socialize and say the right thing, as a bot they're talking to tells them how wonderful and perceptive they are. A world of wannabe geniuses caught in an AI-spun web set out by selfish, dishonest tech bros, many of them billionaires, who don't give a damn about either their deluded users or all the creatives harmed by AI companies stealing their work to enable competition against them.