A 'Virtual Rapper' Was Fired. Questions About Art and Tech Remain.
Briefly

Last month alone, an A.I. artwork won a prize in Colorado and a computer program improvised a classical music solo in real time in New York City.
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Even when artificial intelligence does help write music, should the humans behind it be accountable for the machine-created lyrics?
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Meanwhile, as culture is increasingly mediated through the digital realm, questions of how to account for all of the other people who directly or indirectly touched that art will multiply, undermining the conventional notion of the artist as expressing her indivisible perspective.
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A final question is deceptively profound: Does it even matter who, or what, composes the song, paints the painting, writes the book?Metaverse avatars and A.I. programs are intrinsically derivative: They are all but guaranteed to be riffs on already existing artists and their works.
Read at Nytimes
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