I share this feeling. I hate that I have to hold what I do hostage and demand ransom (or I die). I don't even like taking *credit*.

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At the same time if you're someone who's been doing artistic work for decades, this sort of music feels like the kind of soundtrack that plays as you look out over a precipice. It's hard to describe the feeling.

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This is perhaps the first AI song I've heard that didn't sound like slop. I think if you had played this for me, blind, I would've given it a 90%+ chance of being human. I'm not a musical expert, but you can just hear so many little choices. I find this sort of thing upsetting.

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I'm sure this has been said before, but this sort of thing sells me more on UBI. You start to imagine a world where artists can treat creations the same way mathematicians do: as things found which one is happy to see others build on. I would happily give up IP if my family were taken care of.

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There is much to admire in Abdul El-Sayed's response to the GOP plant in his audience. But one of the most deft things he did was to point out (twice) that our Constitution protects our right to follow *no* religion, thereby casting Christian nationalist Tommy as the actual religious extremist.

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