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AI Might Create Mental Junk Food, But It Can Never Reach The Human Soul

Hundreds of years from now, people will still read Mark Twain and listen to Bach. They won’t be reading books or listening to music created by bots.

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Artists the world over are worried.

AI is making inroads into music. AI-generated country act Breaking Rust last year achieved No. 1 on Billboard’s Country Digital Song Sales chart with their song “Walk My Walk,” while other tracks have accumulated millions of streams. Short stories apparently entirely authored by bots are winning literary prizes. Though AI-generated music, actors, and performances are currently ineligible to win Grammys or Oscars, we are talking about entertainment. And when surveys show that north of 90 percent of respondents can’t reliably distinguish human-created music from its AI doppelganger, you know there are plenty of people thinking about the financial opportunities this new tech may afford. 

Is AI capable of creating true, authentic beauty to satisfy the needs of the human person? It’s a question presumably keeping a lot of people up at night, not only those with a lot of money to lose but those who fear that their passion and purpose in life is about to be engulfed by bots. But however much AI may approximate and indeed compete with human artwork, it will always fail to create the kind of true beauty the human soul craves.

In a recent op-ed, Washington Post columnist Megan McArdle argues that AI-created art is “not … terrible slop unfit for human consumption.” Rather, the problem with this content is that “it’s too good,” like a........

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