đź§µ AI-generated soul music by "Eddie Dalton" is taking over iTunes, YouTube, and Spotify--raising the question of where humans think beauty and art lives.

Software-made music has gotten so good now that 97 percent of people cannot differentiate it from human-made music.
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Eddie Dalton isn’t real, but what does that mean?

Computer-generated soul music is taking over the internet, raising questions about where humans think art lives

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@mattsheffield The corollary is that human-made music has gotten so bad now that 97 percent of people cannot differentiate it from software-made music.

I don't think this is a huge surprise for commercially-driven music, where the priority has always been “make money not art”.

Same for a lot of Hollywood blockbusters, and just commercial products in general: if the process of getting money produces any art along the way, so be it, but it's rarely the investors' goal.

@greytheearthling @mattsheffield hmm. The oldies from the good days are available as well on the streamers. People could just stream The Beatles, Hendrix and Tupac (of you consider them art, idk) The best art (according to experts) is usually not the most popular art/entertainment.

Maybe AI has just gotten quite good at doing good entertainment music, whether we call it art or not?