Sometimes I wonder if I’ve become stuck in an episode of Star Trek: Next Generation…
There’s a lot of discussion about artificial intelligence, or AI, these days. In the arts, people have expressed their concerns that AI-generated content threatens the livelihood of artists by devaluing human-generated content and therefore reduces demand for such work.
In this article, a website called The Metal Archives announced that it won’t accept any submitted works solely generated by AI. The short-form takeaway from this article is that Metal Archives will be more critical of works suspected of being AI-generated and may request evidence of human creation to complete the submission process to their website.
I really appreciate their disclaimer at the end of their statement, saying “this policy isn’t perfect and is a work-in-progress which may evolve over time.” It speaks to how our present conversations about AI and AI-generated content will continue long into the future, shaping our individual and collective experiences.
Ultimately, humans cannot (and, I believe, will not) be replaced as the definitive source of creative content, as only a sentient entity can produce work driven by emotion and guided by experience. If artificial intelligence learns to replicate emotions as fully as humans currently do, this ongoing conversation will become a new chapter in our dialogue of existential understanding and co-existence.
Accepting AI Music versus Human Music For Metal Archives
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