People have done weird stuff in the name of art forever, and there's no shortage of examples over the last few centuries. Sometimes it shifts the popular mood in new directions. Sometimes it's just a urinal. But the important thing is that the vast majority of us just keep on listening to tin pan alley and watching the Brady Bunch. Because while humans are capable of messing with the parameters, a far, far more "human" tendency is to find a rut – preferably one carved out by lots of other sheep – and stick to it until you die. Loving AI slop is an incredibly (if irritatingly) "human" thing to do. It's why Stock, Aitken & Waterman were so successful. A few delightfully creative weirdos on the margin doesn't change anything. (Although if it did, I would point to someone like Plini rather than Angine de Poitrine – someone who can mess with the parameters and yet remain astonishingly accessible to people who don't have a PhD in music theory or get excited by different for the sake of different.)
People have done weird stuff in the name of art forever, and there's no shortage of examples over the last few centuries. Sometimes it shifts the popular mood in new directions. Sometimes it's just a urinal. But the important thing is that the vast majority of us just keep on listening to tin pan alley and watching the Brady Bunch. Because while humans are capable of messing with the parameters, a far, far more "human" tendency is to find a rut – preferably one carved out by lots of other sheep – and stick to it until you die. Loving AI slop is an incredibly (if irritatingly) "human" thing to do. It's why Stock, Aitken & Waterman were so successful. A few delightfully creative weirdos on the margin doesn't change anything. (Although if it did, I would point to someone like Plini rather than Angine de Poitrine – someone who can mess with the parameters and yet remain astonishingly accessible to people who don't have a PhD in music theory or get excited by different for the sake of different.)
Every major shift in popular music has been started by a bunch of delightfully creative weirdos. 😉