At the beginning, a musician at a keyboard composes the basic tune. Then a whole series of MFers overproduce it to hell. At the end, the original musician happens to meet the singer who did the human part of the final rendering and is the "star" who everybody watches perform. In a better day, the original musician would be the star, but in this process they are insignificant.
I'm pretty sure the article is at least mildly ironic. I don't think he literally believes that "nobody cares if music is real any more." Towards the end he talks about how AI music is not really art, and it lulls you into oblivion. The writer's a legit scholar with an academic interest in video games, btw: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Bogost
Those poor, poor academic publishers... they're actually going to have to do some reviewing? And maybe even some EDITING? ...nah, they'll probably just run them through OpenAI...
Game on the couch til I pass out. Wake up halfway thru the night, throw self on the mattress, shedding clothes til I'm comfortable. (varies by time of year)
Even then, it will just slow research down and set us back. Scientists won’t stop sciencing, and it certainly won’t lead to discoveries they want.
Well... that can be more serious that you suggest. Tenure-track faculty need publication-worthy projects and grad students; what if the only funding available is military- and surveillance-oriented? Big universities are going to expect scientists to bring in the money or leave.
There was a sumo wrestler who would do something similar, except he'd bounce up and down and grasp with his hands....
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8RuUVwAbmDg
The tournament organizers made him quit doing it tho...