Comment Re:We don't need AI generated music (Score 1) 11
There's sadly a segment of people so dumb and easily amused that they actually enjoy listening to or watching the stuff, and they have money to be taken. The recent success of whatever that shitty 70s soft-rock AI band was called, shows that you just need the right people promoting the crap and they'll gobble it up.
The monetization path is identical to that of the social media dreck that existed before AI. Individual uploaders can achieve monetary gains with the right promo, but the biggest winner is of course the house. Facebook has geared their whole platform to push and even generate AI slop, from what I hear.
Doesn't sound like it's going anywhere, unless the users decide to quit rolling around in that sty. I don't see that happening without either a broad cultural shift like we saw with smoking, which required a whole lot of messaging and some intervention from the government. With the US government being a wholly owned subsidiary of the tech companies, and ideologically opposed to doing anything useful for the people at large, I don't see that happening. And so we will all suffer the idiots.