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Bluetus

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17. No competent lawyer files a brief written by AI
Thu Jan 15, 2026, 03:50 PM
Jan 15

But they might use AI to give them some angles on arguments and case law. (At today's state of the art, even that is hazardous because AI just keeps making things up out of thin air.)

Skilled artists aren't going to have AI produce their next album, but they might use some AI to try out some different ideas. And they can certainly use some AI in the production process.

Things will probably look a lot different in 10 years or even 5 years, and I will probably have a different view by then. However, as of today, IMHO, anybody who relies heavily on AI is probably just faking it in the first place. It isn't that much different from AutoTune.

And a reality in the pop world is that it has been a long time since anybody outside the top 1% have been making a living from record company contracts or radio airplay (or now Spotify royalties). The reality for most pop itinerant musicians is that they have to make their living from live shows. If they want to mix in some AI or backing tracks, that's an artistic choice as far as I am concerned. Is it really different from when live bands first started using Oberheim or Prophet synths to add string sounds to the live performance? How dare they fake their strings? This is putting violinists out of work.

The day that songs are produced entirely with AI is the day I expect to see a show with nothing but Elon Musk's robots in the audience.

And I'm not really kidding about that. Some people have predicted it will not be long until more than half the traffic on the Internet will be bots pushing around bullshit AI content consumed by other bot accounts. Anybody on Facebook lately is probably being flooded with the tsunami of articles that tell an emotional story of a heroic figure prevailing over impossible odds, written in the style of all that old Paul Harvey crap. None of it is true, but the fake stories are flooding the zone.

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Good for them!!!!! SheltieLover Jan 14 #1
I wish them well. It is fraught. Bluetus Jan 14 #2
Because those tools are trained illegally on stolen intellectual property, any use of them is unethical highplainsdem Jan 14 #3
And btw, what you wrote about AI being used at all levels of the music industry "for a long time" is wrong and highplainsdem Jan 14 #4
By "long time" I mean 5+ years Bluetus Jan 14 #10
I don't believe that AI music taking over is inevitable - that's propaganda from the AI companies. And highplainsdem Jan 15 #11
Just to be clear, my use of the AI material Bluetus Jan 15 #15
You're still likely to end up encouraging some of those people to use AI. highplainsdem Jan 15 #16
No competent lawyer files a brief written by AI Bluetus Jan 15 #17
No ethical person should be using generative AI, period, for anything, unless forced to do so by a highplainsdem Jan 17 #21
What highplainsdem said jfz9580m Jan 14 #7
Now, if only Spotify and the other streaming platforms... LudwigPastorius Jan 14 #5
Very cool. ❤️ littlemissmartypants Jan 14 #6
I absolutely can't stand ai so called music. tazcat Jan 14 #8
I am a happy CAMPER and have been for years. Tikki Jan 14 #9
Jan 22, 2026 Edits jfz9580m Jan 15 #12
Why aren't they all doing this? FakeNoose Jan 15 #13
Spotify makes more money from AI-generated music. It can't be copyrighted, so they don't have to highplainsdem Jan 15 #14
Well I get that FakeNoose Jan 15 #18
Of course it can be copyrighted. Bluetus Jan 17 #19
No. That's not true, and they don't claim copyright. See this: highplainsdem Jan 17 #20
I don't think you understand copyrights. Bluetus Jan 17 #22
You're still 100% wrong, because you ignored this paragraph: highplainsdem Jan 17 #23
What you are citing is only an opinion by the copyright office and that is not binding on anything. Bluetus Jan 17 #24
You can claim a partial copyright if you did any of the work and can prove it. I doubt applying a little highplainsdem Jan 17 #25
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