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Barack Obama: “For elevator music, AI is going to work fine. Music like Bob Dylan or Stevie Wonder, that's different”::Barack Obama has weighed in on AI’s impact on music creation in a new interview, saying, “For elevator music, AI is going to work fine”.

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[–] the_q@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Young people think all this AI stuff is great and older folks are suspicious. I think older folks are right this time.

[–] interceder270@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Eh. Hard to take people's opinion on art seriously considering what's popular.

This is an interesting crossroads where greedy creators have to fight against greedy owners.

My experience has been the opposite. The boomers think it's gonna do everything for them, and the young people I know think it's gonna destroy the world.

[–] desconectado@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As any tool, it's as great as its user. I think younger generations are probably more eager to explore and expand, but it's ok to be suspicious when used incorrectly.

AI is great when used for some specific applications, but I had a discussion last week with someone asking chatgpt about immigration advice... Ehh no thanks, I rather talk to an actual expert.

[–] egeres@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I agree with the conclusions of the boomers, but for very different I think long-term AI will produce vastly more harm than good. Just this week we got a headline about google, which is a serious and grown company which already makes billions was up to some fuckery against firefox, facebook has been fined a million times for not respecting privacy and amazon workers have to pee in bottles. To my sadness, all movement against the integration of AI in weapons basically to "kill people" will be very noble but won't do jackshit. Do we think china/rusia are going to give a single fuck about this? Even the US will start selling AI-drones when it becomes normalized. And that's just AI in war, but there's another trillion things where AI will fuck things up, artists will be devalued, misinformation will reach a new all-time high, capchas are long dead making the internet a more polluted place, surveillance will be more toxic, the list goes on