<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tumult</author><text>Humanity lost some things when it gained recorded music. It made the profession of performer less valuable, and diminished the number of performers who could make a living. But humanity got something very valuable in return — the ability to record and play back music. The same goes with the tradeoffs made for photography and motion pictures.&lt;p&gt;I see little value to humanity in tools that are able to generate an endless amount of music derived from existing music, specifically designed to neatly slot into the place of human artists. We gain little in return from that.&lt;p&gt;Some people will make an argument like, this lets people generate lots of low-quality music for use in elevators or grocery stores. Well, there is already a massive oversupply of completely free music which can do that. Do people pretend to not know this?&lt;p&gt;The other weak argument is that it lets people express themselves who haven&amp;#x27;t studied or practiced music. But, it doesn&amp;#x27;t, because the interfaces (text prompts or &amp;quot;upload an existing file&amp;quot;) are designed to take the place of a human being given instructions for criteria to fill, as if they were a worker, not an expression of the person giving the instructions. If the person giving the instructions were expressing themselves, most of the AI tool would not be redundant. It&amp;#x27;s as expressive as telling another person to write a song for you with some instructions. Hardly expressive at all.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Max-q</author><text>When recorded music was invented, musicians protested. Recorded music was devoid of any vitality or soul. Recorded music still became a hit. Then we got the synthesizer. Again we got the same complaints, lifeless and without soul. The synthesizer still became a hit. Now the next step is happening, and we see the same complaints all over.&lt;p&gt;Only time will show if the next step will happen anyway. My gut feeling tells me that AI art will gain acceptance over time, and we will just think of it as &amp;quot;art&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;music&amp;quot;, just as we did with recorded mysic and synthetic sounds.</text></item><item><author>chilmers</author><text>To me the feeling of AI generated content is less &amp;quot;slop&amp;quot; and more &amp;quot;in-flight magazine&amp;quot;. It can have a surface sheen of quality that you can lure you in, but you realise it&amp;#x27;s devoid of any vitality or soul.</text></item><item><author>cedws</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t think I can endure much more AI slop seeping its way into my life.</text></item><item><author>epaga</author><text>I have to say, I completely lost it at the whisper &amp;#x27;(The &amp;quot;Software&amp;quot;)&amp;#x27; (0:18)... give this tech another year or two and it will be better quality than your average radio song.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License</title><url>https://suno.com/song/da6d4a83-1001-4694-8c28-648a6e8bad0a/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>moritzwarhier</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not sure I follow your argument, because neither synthesizers nor recordings write music.&lt;p&gt;For augmenting comoposers, sure, GenAI can be a tool like others. Musicians have been incorporating rhythms and melodies shipped with their electronic instruments for ages.&lt;p&gt;Entire genres have been defined by sounds and synth presets, too.&lt;p&gt;So I do see a bit of the similarities that you describe, but I think this is largely misleading.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Max-q</author><text>When recorded music was invented, musicians protested. Recorded music was devoid of any vitality or soul. Recorded music still became a hit. Then we got the synthesizer. Again we got the same complaints, lifeless and without soul. The synthesizer still became a hit. Now the next step is happening, and we see the same complaints all over.&lt;p&gt;Only time will show if the next step will happen anyway. My gut feeling tells me that AI art will gain acceptance over time, and we will just think of it as &amp;quot;art&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;music&amp;quot;, just as we did with recorded mysic and synthetic sounds.</text></item><item><author>chilmers</author><text>To me the feeling of AI generated content is less &amp;quot;slop&amp;quot; and more &amp;quot;in-flight magazine&amp;quot;. It can have a surface sheen of quality that you can lure you in, but you realise it&amp;#x27;s devoid of any vitality or soul.</text></item><item><author>cedws</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t think I can endure much more AI slop seeping its way into my life.</text></item><item><author>epaga</author><text>I have to say, I completely lost it at the whisper &amp;#x27;(The &amp;quot;Software&amp;quot;)&amp;#x27; (0:18)... give this tech another year or two and it will be better quality than your average radio song.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License</title><url>https://suno.com/song/da6d4a83-1001-4694-8c28-648a6e8bad0a/</url></story>