Does Where Music Or Art Is From Matter Anymore?

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Everything, including the code to power algorithms, came from someone at some point. Are we as a society forgetting that? Within the rise of artificial intelligence and the age of what OpenAI founder Sam Altman refers to as the time when “humans go from being the smartest thing on planet earth to not the smartest thing on planet earth,” is a profound contradiction. On one side, there’s an acceptance of ceding this so-called superior intelligence to something else, code, algorithms, and supercomputers, because it is claimed to accelerate economic and social progress. On the other hand, it is our intellect and its historical social superiority that created the intelligence on which AI is trained in the first place. We’re using our smarts to develop something that replaces some of our skills, so we don’t all need to be as smart. All of AI infrastructure, be it microchips that power servers and miners, or the prompts that create songs on Udio or Suno, began as an idea in someone’s mind, somewhere, at some time. Over time, through trials and errors, those ideas became chips, art, musical works, or sets of code, each built on top of each other to create something that Altman proclaims will become or has already become smarter than all of us. Yet, wherever this progression leads us, I find this ignorance of forgetfulness, how we got to where we are now, baffling. In an effort to create something smarter than we could ever be, we have, in effect, dumbed down our ability to recognise how we got here. We are forgetting the importance of origin. And it is leading to worrying consequences. NEW YORK, UNITED STATES – 2024/09/04: The American Federation of Musicians (AFM), a union … More representing over 70,000 musicians across the entertainment industry, rallies…