Barack Obama has weighed in on AI’s impact on music creation in a new interview, saying, “For elevator music, AI is going to work fine”.

Barack Obama: “For elevator music, AI is going to work fine. Music like Bob Dylan or Stevie Wonder, that’s different”::Barack Obama has weighed in on AI’s impact on music creation in a new interview, saying, “For elevator music, AI is going to work fine”.

  • @[email protected]English
    111•8 months ago

    …so I’ve been on a shit load of elevators, and I don’t recall a single one of them having music. For as common a trope as it is, you’d think elevator music would be more common in actual elevators.

    • @[email protected]English
      49•8 months ago

      It’s like porn, they all used to have music, and now people still make jokes about how bad it was but it’s just gone now

    • proleEnglish
      32•8 months ago

      It’s not as common as it used to be, but I think the point was kind of that you’re not supposed to notice it?

      Look into “muzak” (the style of music. Apparently it’s also a brand according to Google), and some of Brian Eno’s ambient albums like “Music for Airports” (which is definitely a bit more sparse than elevator music, which was often like smooth jazz versions of classic songs), but along similar lines.

      I don’t like to think I’m that old, and I 100% remember elevator music.

      Edit: was possibly thinking of “musique concrete” rather than muzak.

      • @[email protected]English
        3•8 months ago

        I love Eno’s ambient music but it’s really distinct from the cheesy musak you’re referring to.

        • proleEnglish
          2•8 months ago

          I may have been thinking of “musique concrete” rather than muzak

    • @[email protected]English
      1•8 months ago

      I worked in an office that installed music in the bathrooms. It wasn’t there for a long time, and then they added it. An email went out at one point instructing people to stop turning off the music (someone figured out where the Sonos controls were I guess). Someone at the top had decided it was IMPERATIVE to have something to listen to other than the coworker grunting next to you.

    • LCPEnglish
      1•8 months ago

      Some hotel elevators have it.

      But yeah, I don’t recall the last time I heard music in a residential elevator.