Composer Joe Hisaishi: “Generative AI can’t create new songs” – Nikkei Shimbun September 15, 2024 2:00 [Members-only article] Joe Hisaishi, a composer known for his work on Studio Ghibli films, was interviewed by the Nikkei Shimbun in San Francisco, where he was visiting for a performance. In the near future when AI (artificial intelligence) will mass-produce content, will people be able to continue to demonstrate value in the field of art? Hisaishi asserts that “generative AI cannot create new songs.” The argument is that AI can only create imitations. –In the entertainment industry, the spread of AI is eroding the value of things created by humans… This article is for members only. Please register to continue reading. 2271 characters remaining.
>>4 For now, AI-generated pictures and music are often “somewhere I’ve seen this before…” Even with text, there are software and apps that can tell if there are AI-specific writing quirks, or conversely, if a report was created by AI They say the singularity point will come sooner than expected, but I think AI is still in the process of accumulating knowledge.
It’s likely that there will be some weird or uninspiring sounds mixed in, so it’s likely they won’t be able to complete it, but I’m sure they’ll be able to make a demo recording.
>>12 Is it something like Irasutoya? If you can get away with AI songs, that’s fine, but if you want to be particular, you can make them human songs. I think it’s good to have that option.
In fact, their ability to create new things is far greater than that of humans, as they can completely randomize things within certain standards. Humans just can’t get rid of their habits. People study music theory to help them break their habits, but they still can’t break them completely.
>>18 However, the strongest AI in Go and Shogi is AlphaZero, created by Google, which is only taught the rules and does not refer to any human records. In other words, the human samples were a hindrance.
AI is the ultimate form of imitation and learning, so I think it will be possible someday, but after that it will depend on whether or not there are ghosts like in Ghost in the Shell, and whether or not a ghost resides in the AI.
I guess the LDP posters are AI too. AI will probably take over local commercial music and free music. And even if composers are accused of plagiarism, they’ll be able to say “AI did it.”
Technological advances have transformed the way we experience music. From ancient instruments to modern instruments, from pianofortes to electric instruments, it may even give birth to new genres.
I wonder if there’s a company that will write a haiku if you give it an image. I think Joe Hisaishi would be overjoyed to use AI back when he was making Minimum.
In the end, it’s something that people listen to and evaluate. Mechanically combining sounds to create a song no one has ever heard before is something that people have done before, so it has no artistic quality and is not systematized. That is a task that humans do, and music is a genre that AI is not good at.
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