Still wrestling with this: If AI music becomes ephemeral, moment-specific, and non-repeatable, what does that do to memory? Will we even have “favourite songs” anymore? Or just moods we once inhabited? How do you remember something designed to be unmemorable?
The phrase “protect the soul of music” gets thrown around so much it’s lost meaning. What if machine-made music develops a soul — not human, but emergent? That’s a scarier, stranger possibility than just losing jobs.
Still wrestling with this: If AI music becomes ephemeral, moment-specific, and non-repeatable, what does that do to memory? Will we even have “favourite songs” anymore? Or just moods we once inhabited? How do you remember something designed to be unmemorable?
The phrase “protect the soul of music” gets thrown around so much it’s lost meaning. What if machine-made music develops a soul — not human, but emergent? That’s a scarier, stranger possibility than just losing jobs.