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Paul McCartney joins music industry protest against AI with silent track (www.theguardian.com)
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Former Beatle and artists including Sam Fender, Kate Bush and Hans Zimmer record silent LP Is This What We Want

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[–] jonathan7luke@lemmy.zip 62 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

Maybe we will lose low effort artists but gain great music by passionate people.

This is such a bizarre take.

I wouldn't characterize musicians who depend on some financial return as "low effort" at all. Almost all the best musicians, going back to classical music and beyond, were dependent on their music as a source of income.

If anything, the people who do music as a side hobby are usually more "low effort" than those who actually make it their main career. And if artists can't make money of their music anymore, we'll really only get music from rich people who can afford the lessons, instruments, recording studio, production, etc. as an expensive hobby rather than a source of income.

[–] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 hours ago

When discussing things like this, i find it best to view it through the lens of ubi. AI is happening, theres no amount of online debating thats going to change that. So if you dont create an economic system where people dont have to work to survive, people arent going to survive in your system. Hence, they have a point. People that WANT to get into music always have that option, untied to economic success. People that only make music as a cash grab now no longer have that incentive, because they dont need to.

People having to work to survive is barbaric

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 34 points 16 hours ago

And if artists can't make money of their music anymore, we'll really only get music from rich people who can afford the lessons, instruments, recording studio, production, etc. as an expensive hobby rather than a source of income.

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