He's obviously never heard "I'm still standing" by Adolf Hitler.
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Those are just voice replacements
I hadn't before reading this comment either, which prompted me to look for it on YouTube.
Of course, Adolf Hitler couldn't actually speak English, and the English generated by that doesn't sound very much like a native speaker of Austrian German would normally speak English. I am a native speaker of Austrian German and if I sing "I'm Still Standing" it doesn't sound like that at all.
I mean Obama is not wrong, but I hope the rest of his thoughts are that it will be as good as the artists he quoted as it absolutely will one day. Unsure when as there is an uncanny valley to cross. He did say this right and it was not just a get off my front lawn comment…right?
He's wrong in the sense that Bob Dylan and Stevie Wonder are just as much cultural reflections as they are artists. Popular art and celebrity are effectively inseparable. This is why each generation often doesn't "get" the popular art of others.
The reality is that there's nothing stopping an AI from becoming a celebrity, and I'm a bit surprised it hasn't happened yet. Once that happens, the art it produces will be lauded, and people who are not the direct participants in mainstream popular culture will be confused and in some cases upset or offended by it. And the wheel will continue to turn.
Very good points. Art is in the eye/ear of the beholder sort of thing and our taste is for sure influenced by our culture/generation.