At Berklee, aspiring composers worry AI threatens their future

At Berklee, aspiring composers worry AI threatens their future

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For centuries, the process of writing music has been the same, whether it’s done with pencil and paper or a computer: The art involves expressing human ideas through music. Generative artificial intelligence threatens to upend that, and that dynamic is playing out at Berklee College of Music, one of the world’s top music schools. Students…

Berklee College of Music’s embrace of AI has some students upset

Berklee College of Music’s embrace of AI has some students upset

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But at Berklee, the future composers, songwriters, and musicians are also worried about how using AI may be in effect stealing from the works of all prior artists, interfering with their ability to develop their own voices, and destroying their career opportunities. The latest contretemps started when the school promoted a class called “Bots and…