Same was said about microphones and amplifiers, the drum machine, sampling...
Music just adapts. New methods, new sounds, new genres. And it won't get easier to create music, it will just get easier to create certain parts of it (anyone can play strings now with an orchestral sampler; that was unthinkable 50y ago). It will still be brutally hard to stand out from the crowd.
Nonsense. Those things didn’t churn out new finished compositions. At best, they added a track using a few parameters.
This is entirely different. Your comment can easily have been generated by an LLM. Operating at scale, human comments and articles would literally become 0.00001% of all comments and articles, and on average probably would be lower quality anyway, in both breadth of “knowledge” and lack of civility. Once people come to overwhelmingly prefer digital content, all those charming platitudes about how human ingenuity / whatever can never be replaced, will melt away. “The crowd” will be 99.9999% automated processes.
Do you want a human to make your fries and smile a fake smile as they give them to you?
Do you want a human to operate your elevators? Produce your clothes and shoes by hand? You are spoiled by the thread count and consistency of machines there. Why not in digital content?
Music just adapts. New methods, new sounds, new genres. And it won't get easier to create music, it will just get easier to create certain parts of it (anyone can play strings now with an orchestral sampler; that was unthinkable 50y ago). It will still be brutally hard to stand out from the crowd.