DailyDirt: Creative Robots Replacing Artists And Writers...
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Robots are taking away valuable jobs from more and more humans everyday. People used to connect phone calls. People used to categorize links on the internet (and some still do). But those jobs have been largely replaced by more efficient algorithms. Jobs that require some human creativity are supposed to be immune from an attack of automation, but it really depends on what kind of creativity.- Algorithms that mimic Vincent Van Gogh's style -- or other artist's styles -- will be able to create enormous libraries of digital artwork. If non-human artists' work is in the public domain, maybe we'll see an insane amount of clip art in the near future. [url]
- Japanese fembot HRP-4C can sing like human pop stars. This isn't new, but when nobody really recognizes the composers behind pop music, will anyone care when the voices are artificially generated, too? [url]
- Turning data into written text isn't exactly a creative task, so humans might not be required to do it for much longer. We've seen computers writing news stories, so it shouldn't be too surprising that a bot is writing millions of words every day now. These bots aren't writing the great American novel, but maybe if we introduce them to a lot of virtual monkeys banging away on typewriters.... [url]
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Filed Under: artificial intelligence, automation, clip art, composers, fembot, pop music, robots, shakespeare, vincent van gogh
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Perhaps as long as we can shut them all away in their own algorithmic universe, only occasionally peeping in out of curiosity and to tune them, we can think of moving the human versions out to the virtual world too. The rest of us can then get on with inventing new stuff.
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Virtual composers too
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Re: Virtual composers too
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110715/11112415107/dailydirt-creative-robots-generating -art-overload.shtml
Perhaps you're thinking of Emily Howell?
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Art
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Programming Music
I think your article touches on some issues that are an extension of what is already commonplace methodology for purely commercial needs. I hadn't thought of that before, but I would agree that if lowers costs like cutting an expensive workforce, you bet.
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Technically, you could do that today, but even with the fastest computers available, it would take centuries to do.
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Re: "ugly pretty"
In additional to robo-copyrighting all musical compositions spewed out by an algorithm, the algorithms themselves could be patented (or perhaps even trademarked) so that any music with a similar 'look and feel' would be considered infringing.
This might be a great opportunity for a new collection society. When almost every conceivable arrangement of notes and words has already been generated by a computer and copyrighted, human composers who actually market music will be infringing almost by default, no matter what new original art they might come up with.
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You're behind the times
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Cool New Tools for Art Forgers & Would-be Pop Idol Managers
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