Ai will never take over music, here's why
Don't be worried that Ai will replace musicians, here's why...
I was watching a jam with the world's best bass player Jaco Pastorius
You may not know who he is. It doesn't matter. Stick with me. I'm describing your fave musician in your fave genre too.
Anyhoo, it was grainy obscure footage, a 3 piece band with Frank Gambale playing the best funk rhythm guitar you ever heard. So good it made Jaco look ordinary. Remember, so many people have copied him (like Jimi Hendrix was copied too) his finger groove seems now like nothing special - until the moment he started taking the lead, improvising. You could see the musician ego slip into another parallel universe. You went with him, getting into the same zone so completely you forgot where you were, and who you are.
THAT'S WHY AI WILL NEVER, EVER TAKE OVER MUSIC.
This is such a human thing. DYK we homo sapiens were making music before we had spoken language. Whatever dopamine music stimulates the fact remains - it is HUMAN communication.
They all do it, human perfromers that is. Watch an Amy Winehouse performance, she lives it for us - there's some intangible empathy we ride on along with her.
Will Hologram performance kill live music
There's an ad on TV showing hologram avatars ABBA concert depicting a joyous audience, panning across happy smiling faces for 90% of the ad. PLEASE! Ticketmaster Fck the Fck off. We're not buying it. We like a good dance and sing-a-long to an Abba tune but might as well stand next to a Juke box! It's Karaoke, there's no soul.
Live Nation has been trying to kill live music (in venues that it doesn't own) and this would be an ideal business model - no messy artistes to handle, just one guy to press the play button.
They think, like copyright, it will be an earner forever, long after the artistes are dead. But hey genius, where are the new artists to replace them? The next generation to rip off. Can't you even be bothered with them, even as a fallback position?
Conclusion
It's ludicrous to suggest humans will desert the danger of live performance for some holograms.
Best thing we can all do to the purveyors of Ai blandness - BOYCOTT them.