2023/12/20

Generative AI Will Streamline, Not Diversify, Culture, Holly Herndon Warns

“The deluge of automation will amplify whatever it is pointed at. If we continue to value engagement above all else it will excel at facilitating 24-hour content avatars, sophistry, and distracting novelty.”
– American artist and composer Holly Herndon, on how prompt-based AI music generators like Suno AI will further homogenize culture. “AI may thrive in satisfying [middle-of-the-road] preferences but that does not answer the question of how to revive everything else.”
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