AI is creating a 'human premium' for art created by people
The article explores the 'human premium' in art, noting that while AI can generate music and art that is indistinguishable from human work, many consumers still prefer human-made content. It questions the future value of human creativity in an AI-saturated market.
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It addresses the existential question of how human labor and creativity will be valued as generative AI becomes ubiquitous in creative industries.
Share Save Add as preferred on Google Ros Atkins Presenter of 'The Value Crisis' BBC A few weeks back, in a former bank building that's now a music venue in Falmouth, Cornwall, I was DJ-ing at a night I run called Rave Machine. It was a noisy, high-energy, sweaty affair, just as a night's dancing should be.
All of the elements - the crowd, performers, staff, music, the journey home - connected to create something special, a one-off. It was also completely human.
Something, in theory, well out of reach of what technology could possibly offer.
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