In A World With AI, What's The Point Of Creating New Stuff?

Someone used AI to have Paul McCartney sing "God Only Knows' by The Beach Boys. Jack made a great point...what's the point of creating anything anymore if you can just type what you want into Chat GPT?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:17):
I may not always love you.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
As long as the roasts above you, you never need
to tell us. So this is a Beach Boys song.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
That from that sounds brilliant, one of my favorites.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
So I don't know this song, but it was sung
by a beach boy, not Paul McCartney. But this is
Paul McCartney singing because of artificial intelligence. That's what I'm told.
That's what i'm told. That sound like Paul McCartney singing
to you. It does show, but he never actually did not,
I don't believe. So you brought the story to us.

(00:56):
So this is what the headline said, and that's good, Michael.
This AI generated verse of God only Knows a Beach
Boys song sung by Paulton McCartney is the best, most
scariest and most intoxicating and mind bending interlude of audio
I've ever listened to. Scary from the standpoint of this
author saying, well, now you can do anything, So what's

(01:17):
the point? So is all that was required of that
that I didn't get? That I don't know. So some
of this AI stuff you hear about is you know,
a little complex. It's it's somebody using artificial intelligence to
remove the horns from a song or whatever, and it
requires some knowledge and expertise. But some of it is

(01:37):
your process known as dehornification. But some of the AI
stuff is just, hey, have Paul McCartney sing Happy Birthday,
and then AI does it, so it doesn't like require
any but anyway, regardless, if we get to the point
where everyone can just say I want kid rock singing
somewhere over the rainbow, and you get it. Don't want that?

Speaker 1 (02:03):
Wow, So I could have Mick Jagger and Keith Richards
singing me Happy Birthday in harmony.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
I suppose, theoretically, I suppose. But but once that, and
once we're there, and if we're not there already will
be there next week, right, I don't. I don't even
know what is music? Then, I don't even know what
it is then, and what's the point of creating any
new stuff? I don't. I don't, I have no Well,

(02:29):
no one knows. And when AI can write novels that
are as good as James Patterson or whatever, which it
probably can't already again, if they can't today again next week,
I don't. I don't know what's gonna happen. I'm so confused.
Things are getting weird and they're getting weird fast.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
Hmm, well said, things are getting weird and they getting
weird fast. I could picture myself sitting around for an
extended period, particularly if aged or aided by intoxicans, coming
up with ideas like, uh, let's see have Taylor Swift
sing Metallica's Enter Sandman.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
Well right, to see what it would sound like. I
assume we'd all bore of that at some point. But
doesn't it doesn't it do something to the other interest
in new created material if I can, if I can
conjure up anything?

Speaker 1 (03:19):
Oh yeah, yeah, how about John Fogerty sinking Moon River
for you classic rock fans.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
Or as I've heard people do. Well, this is the
thing Billy Joel was worried about. Somebody said, have Billy
Joel singing a song like, you know, something from the
mid eighties, And it just created a song. It sounded
like something Billy Joel would have done in the mid eighties.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
Yeah, we're into disturbing territory, no doubt. And I don't know.
I'm ill equipped to guess where it's going. I'm picturing
a furniture maker in you know, nineteen twenty two? Told, yeah,
they can mass produce couches now in a factory. They
can make like twenty five of them in a day.

(04:07):
And I'm thinking, well, that gravy train is done.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
I guess I'll find something else to do.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
Well, right, and life went on. Now, there's probably something
more intrinsic to the human soul about art than sofas.
But I don't know. I like your sofa, come to
think of it. But that's gonna make a difference if
people feel like there's no point in me expressing myself.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
And that's what I think, Yeah, exactly, yeah, yeah. So
if I can say I want a van go painting,
I want it to be a sunset, but I want
to a Doberman pincher in the foreground, wow.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
For instance. Yeah. Well, and I don't know, I don't know.
I know. I wish I was just a little smarter
and wiser because I'm thinking about it. If you can
just say, all right, let me see, give me a
fingerpick guitar, kia G Now let's go to E minor, etc. Etc.

(05:04):
Now over there to say, okay, now give me an
accordion playing an appropriate to countermelody, blah blah blah, and
it takes me twenty minutes to describe this in boom.
I've got a beautifully rendered song, an original song that
is a very different thing than the labor it takes
to actually do all those things, including the thousands and
thousands of hours everybody involved spent mastering their craft.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
On both ends, the people making the song, it would
be a completely different feeling. I would get no feeling
of enjoyment out of that, or a sense of accomplishment really,
And then on the listening end, when you know that
that's all it took, I wouldn't think you'd have the
idolization of someone because everybody can do it.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
That's a great example. When I hear a great band cooking,
I think, Wow, that's an unbelieve that's a thing of
beauty right there, that's an achievement. That's human beings at
their best right there.

Speaker 2 (05:53):
Now.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
I think it took them ten minutes on chat GPT,
who cares