> An AI song about sailing at sea is meaningless because I know the AI has never sailed at sea.

Human singers often sing about topics they have no authentic experience with. Some pop singers exclusively sing songs written by other people.

You're entitled to dislike AI music, but I think your attempt to justify this dislike doesn't hold up to scrutiny.

I don't really want to get pedantic about this, but I also don't listen to pop and authenticity in lyrics is important to me. But authenticity in creation is just as important, I listen to a lot of music with no lyrics at all and it is important to me that it was borne of someone's creative experience.

Regardless of any of that, I could also say that I don't like AI music because I prefer my artists to have hot showers and it's somewhat none of your business, respectfully.

HackerNews holds AI to much higher standards than humans. In other news, water is wet.

You both seem to have assumed I don't hold these standards to real artists, which is nuanced but more or less wrong. I don't know why you made that assumption.

> And I mean this earnestly, if an AI in a corporeal form really did go sailing, I might then be interested in its song about sailing.

Would you? That seems achievable with current technology, bolt a PC with a camera onto a sailing ship and prompt it to compose text based on some image recognition.

For sure, I wouldn't read it as if it were a human story though since I can relate and empathise with the human. But it would be interesting to see what kind of experience it had and how it records and explains it.

For it to have meaning it would have to be an AI without prior experience or knowledge of sailing embedded into its systems.