‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ Composer and More Speak Out About AI at Ghent’s WSA Film Music Days: ‘We Must Continue to Defend Our Art’

GENUINELY WHAT IS HAPPENING TODAY BECAUSE SUDDENLY EVERYONE IS FREAKING OUT ABOUT AI TAKING OVER MUSIC AND SIMON FRANGLEN FROM THE NEW AVATAR MOVIE IS AT THIS BIG CONFERENCE IN BELGIUM CALLED THE WORLD SOUNDTRACK AWARDS SAYING HEY WE HAD HUNDREDS OF REAL HUMAN MUSICIANS RECORDING EMOTION IN A ROOM AND HOW COULD A ROBOT EVER DO THAT WHICH IS TOTALLY FAIR RIGHT BUT THEN THE ARTICLE SAYS COMPOSERS IN THE US AND UK ACTUALLY STRUGGLE TO EVEN UNIONIZE SO THEY ARE DEALING WITH LEGAL BARRIERS WHILE TRYING TO FIGHT MACHINES AND THAT IS WHY THE EUROPEAN COMPOSER AND SONGWRITER ALLIANCE IS LOBBYING POLICYMAKERS SO THEY DO NOT GET SCREWED OVER ON CONTRACTS AND IT IS ALL A HUGE MESS OF CONTRACT STUFF AND TECH ANXIETY ANYWAY THAT IS MY WHOLE THING, LET US DANCE.

OK SO THIS IS MY WHOLE PERSONALITY TODAY BUT DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THESE MOVIE COMPOSERS IN GHENT BECAUSE THEY ARE AT THE WORLD SOUNDTRACK AWARDS LOSING THEIR MINDS OVER AI TAKING THEIR JOBS AND HONESTLY IT MAKES SENSE SINCE SIMON FRANGLEN SAID HE LITERALLY HAD A MASSIVE ORCHESTRA FOR AVATAR FIRE AND ASH POURING THEIR HEARTS OUT AND YOU JUST CANNOT FAKE THAT VIBE WITH A COMPUTER SO NOW THE WHOLE INDUSTRY IS TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO PROTECT THEIR ART BUT APPARENTLY THEY CANNOT EVEN UNIONIZE PROPERLY IN THE US OR UK BECAUSE OF WEIRD LEGAL HURDLES SO THEY ARE RELYING ON THIS EUROPEAN ALLIANCE TO HELP THEM LOBBY POLITICIANS AND NAVIGATE CONTRACTS SO THEY DO NOT GET REPLACED BY CODE WHICH IS WILD BECAUSE THEY REPRESENT 30,000 PEOPLE NOW ANYWAY DO YOU WANT ANOTHER DRINK?

Film composers meeting at the World Soundtrack Awards in Ghent are discussing concerns about AI replicating human emotion in music and the difficulty of unionizing against these industry changes.

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