What is it about?
In this article I highlight three points concerning AI and music, using the AI music application AIVA as a means of thinking through these issues. The main topic points are: 1. Accumulation by dispossession 2. Why machines need humans 3. AI in Secondary Education
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Why is it important?
With the rapid progression of AI, the fundamental questions at the base of the technology are rarely addressed. An application like AIVA reconfigures production relations in such a way that the often claimed benefits of that AI will deliver, are not present in this system. Instead, for most users the work they do will be owned by the machine but with little benefit. Therefore, AIVA creates conditions where humans work for the benefit of machines not the other way round.
Perspectives
As a musician of long standing, the training of AI on the mass of human outputs for profit and benefit of large (and small) corporations is merely illusory. Yet, the claimed benefits of AI's liberating humans and improving their lives, is a consequence of accepting the conditions of data collection and that this data collection masquerades as a human good. However, the human good, as it were, is in the service of corporations for profit, thereby undermining the argument of AI's benefits for humans.
Mr Hussein Boon
University of Westminster
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This page is a summary of: Alien power chords: AIVA has ‘musical artist status’ in France – but what about the humans who feed it?, The Sociological Review Magazine, June 2023, Sociological Review Foundation,
DOI: 10.51428/tsr.tyjl5030.
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