AI vs Venus Theory
#Fan of the massive downer genre? Then don't miss this video by Venus Theory.
Watching it, I remembered how thoughts about the industry began displacing those about music on my own site. If you're into analysis, you'll like many of Benn Jordan's videos.
But if you're into music, not grift, there are so many interesting lines in the video about AI copyright I could quote, demonstrating the current borkened mechanic of copyright claims. It's all quite intricate, quite special - empirical approach and explanation.
(I think the world of literature has it even worse)
Then, at the end, there's this:
"You should not ever stop making the art or music, or stories, or videos, or whatever it is you love to make, because of this whole situation and these stupid AI companies that – let's be real – are probably just some kind of complicated VC money laundering scheme we'll find out about five years from now; because one day you're gonna die and if this is what you gave up doing the things you love over, you're gonna look back on your life and die with a whole bunch of regret."
It hits hardest to think that we have cooled down in our joy of making music, but the sentiment is in the air. We have come to realise that we're sort of alone in our pursuit of art (more so than artists have historically been). Right now, it feels impossible to sit down and just create, unburdened by doubt or adjacent technological, legal, aesthetic, existential, questions. Maybe except when creating ephemeral work with zero commitment to it being recorded, let alone released. Because releasing means trouble.
I don't think this is the endgame, or the end. It's just really tiring to have to rethink or reinvent your own art for reasons that have to do with the content industry.