ai music, music complexity, and the eerieness of non-human works

Trying to figure out what music to listen to today came as a problem while being faced with AI jazz music. I was listening to each track presented to me and it all seemed oddly the same. For some reason, I automatically assumed that because spotify was giving me a playlist, created by them, full of (presumably legitimate) jazz music that was created by humans. But searching deeper at the artists creating the music, it all followed the same theme: basic first and last name, same profile picture as recent album cover, and no description for the artist. Without second thought, an average person could easily fall for this trick and I almost did to be fair, but it’s important to keep a keen eye for said situation. I wanted to find the roots of these songs and I led myself down a rabbit hole of hustler mindset kind of videos promoting the idea of passive income via these songs. A lot of the videos heavily focused on not creating music as a form of art and exploration of the mind, but trying to appeal to the most people and keeping it very simple. AI removes the interesting part of art, specifically music, that gives complication to the piece that requires human interpretation. Like said in the title, without this complexity factor and the disconnect between humans and AI, the music is oddly eerie because you know there isn’t really somebody behind the music. More like someone telling a robot to produce music. Many of the songs on Spotify made with AI are on multiple playlists specific to the genre and it all feels like a major consumption of slop made to mindlessly play. Comparing the music to someone like Miles Davis or Frank Sinatra, you can almost feel the difference in human interaction with the AI music compared to the human-made music. As AI quickly grows in popularity, it’s important to stay agile while viewing any sort of media and music might be the hardest to figure out without a zealous approach

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Thomas More, Utopia

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