Creativity

So there I am, being productive, getting work done, listening to music.

I like to listen to rock while I'm working at a computer. YouTube Music has a feature that will shuffle songs from different up and coming artists that it thinks you will like. As I'm working this realization kind of dawns on me. The song that I've been listening to for the past minute is A.I. generated.

I mean, I hadn't even realized it at first, I was just focusing on my work. But then the lyrics didn't make any sense. And then I realized the singers voice sounded all static-y. And then I looked at the album "art" and it was rife with AI artifacts.

I just have to make fun of this for a second because if I don't then my head will explode.

The "song" is called Throne of Chains and features a Game of Thrones inspired throne. Upon closer inspection, there are chains that hang off of this chair that don't connect to anything. There's also lava and fire splashes that don't make any sense, and some odd garbly-gook all over the chair.

I mean, just get a whiff of these "lyrics":

They built the walls
To keep me still
But in my veins
There's fire to kill

I just sounds... so bad. I can't express just how bad it really sounds.

And yet, this song is in my mix right up there with Disturbed and Linkin Park.

They're not the only one's doing this, oh no. Another "band" by the name of Obsidian Swing is gaining traction. If you look at their singles and EP's, every single song has been uploaded in 2025. Additionally, there is absolutely no consistency with the album "artwork". A photorealistic brick in an alleyway, 2 cartoon stick figure characters sitting on a couch, an anime protaganist in a hoodie, a black and white sketch of a man climbing a mountain, a photo of a ferris wheel.

It's insulting garbage slop that has found its way into my feed.

Art is supposed to be an expression of the human experience, a way to connect us with new thoughts and ideas. Music and television and movies and architecture and so on and so on, it's only valuable because it was created BY a human.

I went to the Air and Space museum in D.C. recently, and they have a spacesuit on display from the very first mission to the moon. Thousands of man hours went into designing and planning and executing that mission. What was on display in front of me was an actual relic of an incredible feat of human accomplishment. Do you think it would be anywhere near as valuable if that exact same relic took an LLM 4 seconds to print in a printer and spit out it's ass?

You and I have a duty in today's world to reject A.I. "artwork" at all costs. It's slowly eroding the foundations of what makes us human.