“Look at you, cool guy, you got it…”

If I’m being honest… AI worries me. I get that it can make things easier, that our lives can be better with some of the things Artificial Intelligence can do for us. However…

I don’t like the idea of using AI to create things like art or music. I realize I may be in the minority on this. I know someone personally that has used AI to create books that they sell on Amazon (including coloring books that, to be honest, aren’t the greatest because of errors that a human would have noticed). They use AI to create music (both by writing lyrics and generating the music). They use AI to create avatars and to even have full-on conversations on websites in order to create content.

It just all feels ingenuine.

The person that I mentioned will send me audio clips to listen to for some feedback on a song that their AI program created. They fully intend on releasing some of this music on the streaming platforms and even have an AI-generated “person” as the album artwork and such.

That really, really bothers me.

I love music and art. Many times when I find a song I like, I dig in to see what the other songs by that artist are like. I look up tour dates, I check out their online presence, I really want to do my research to see what kind of person/people have created the art I had been enjoying.

If I were to come across this AI-generated artist, I fully believe that the person I know will have used AI to generate social media posts and maybe even generated images of that avatar performing shows that never actually happened. I wouldn’t put it past them.

While I understand there are many AI things out there like music and art, and that I may have even been someone to enjoy what they’ve created, I would really rather my art be created by someone with a pulse, not microchips and processors.

Just my two cents.