I visited my daughter in Hollywood this past weekend and we drove by the
writer's strike a few times. We're in the beginning of a labor war. A song has more elements than just words, so it's a slightly different intelligence than just language models used by ChatGPT and other software.
A prominent IT podcaster, James Calacanis, who's devoting all his new podcasts to AI, says most run of the mill podcasts can potentially be replaced by AI. He claims it's the high quality human work that will be hard to replace with AI. But the pace of progress in the AI field is fast, so who knows if an AI program, with a human helper, can create something as good as Myley Cyrus' Flowers.
>>The WGA is requesting that the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) ban the use of AI for writing and rewriting any source material, as well as its use as a source material of its own, and that no AI material be trained on WGA writers’ work.<<