I've got a dude arguing in the comments on one of my posts that he has to use AI to produce music because he doesn't have the money to do anything else, and that if we really think he shouldn't be using AI, we should give him some money to hire musicians.

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This gets into some territory that I feel like I gotta dissect.

First, musicians /should/ get paid for their work.

Second, GenAI "music" more or less guarantees that the musicians who's work was stolen to produce that "music" are not getting paid.

Third, "Generative AI' is such an overloaded term that it's easy for lots of things to get wrapped up in the bucket that mean different things, and that makes talking about it difficult.

I don't want this to be a big thread, I don't want to be talking about Generative AI at all, but I've been ragebaited, so let's chat.