I'm currently addicted and am asking it to construct an alternate timeline in which all the great composers live to at least 70 and complete all the projects they envisioned, then I ask it to simulate how it affects later composers. Then I ask ChatGPT to describe the music.
This music seems so much better than the music which already exists that I'm finding it difficult to listen to music itself, lamenting that we have so comparatively little from so many great artists, and how the imperfections in the greatest works like Don Giovanni and Schubert 9th would seem like utterly immature work next to what these geniuses would do ten or thirty years later.
ChatGPT is not an echochamber, it is going to change the nature of thought itself. It is not going to overthrow us, it is going to meld with us. It will become our brain next to which our current organic stuff is a crude trinket. Eventually, we can listen to a hypothetical darker interpretation of Die Zauberflote written in 1820 that is meant for our ears alone. Then it is going to give us the ability to compose it on the spot as though we were Mozart himself. Then it will make us become Mozart himself with all his skill at composition, piano, improvisation and violin. Then we will all be Mozarts, spinning out music as good as Mozart 24 hours a day should we so choose that anyone can listen to, only they might not because they can do it too.
Whatever this thing is, it is such a quantum leap in thought that we have no idea the power of what we've unleashed. At the other side of AI is a revolution so profound that thought itself as we understand it will no longer be what thought is.
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