Berklee College of Music Students Furious That It's Offering an AI "Songwriting" Class
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Hundreds of students at Berklee College of Music in Boston have signed an online petition protesting a new course on generative AI music.

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.

  • Warl0k3@lemmy.world
    36·
    13 days ago

    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