Remember the tricks of Michael Jackson shoes in "Smooth Criminal" that can make him lean 45 degrees? It's pure gimmick, but still magical because pop culture is often about illusions. Nah, Now the question: If humans can sell "fantasy", Ai can also be?
Velvet sundown cases are an example of the heat. This Psych-Rock band has millions of listeners in Spotify before being found out only a "synthetic" music project. Fans feel lied to, but the music ... not very bad. In fact, it's quite "neat" to make us think: if Ai can make a song that is nice to hear, means that the "original" feeling actually comes from whom, the maker or listener?
On one side, AI can be a new creative tool, the same as multitrack recording that was once rejected by musicians but eventually became an industrial standard. On the other hand, there is anxiety: if all works can be produced by machines, will art just be a "content" without a soul?
Oscar Wilde once imagined the future where the machine was working on all the bad work so that humans focused on making beautiful things. Ironically, now we instead give up the "beautiful" section to the machine too.
