Hundreds of students at the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston have signed an online petition protesting a new course on generative AI music and songwriting, marking another salvo in the continuing battle between artists and a technology they believe is stealing their hope for a livelihood.
As of Tuesday, 418 people have signed the petition, which is targeting the two-credit course “Bots and Beats: AI and the Future of Songwriting” and calling for the school to stop leveraging AI on campus.
We’ll critically examine how AI affects the very essence of creativity, from the rise of voice cloning to the potential of deepfakes, and explore the cutting edge technologies of XR, Web 3, Blockchain, and the Metaverse.
oh this sounds like an extremely valuable class lmfao
Didn’t they just cancel the metaverse?
Yes but also No but kinda
holy shit, I thought you were making a joke, but then I clicked over to read the actual description and it’s all really in there!?! WTF??!
I’m sure this college got some sort of deal or increased valuation for adding this kind of crap
Why bother wasting money on this class when you’re not making anything? Why even show up to class?
I don’t blame them.
@jaredwhite
“Come & learn how to do something that will eventually relegate you to a miserable menial job!“I hope this is a ruse and when students show up BAM Expulsion paperwork.
