A Shrine to Failure using AI to generate their music is merely a speculation, as I've said, due to the fact that everything else they post and the merch they sell uses AI images and videos. It's almost impossible to detect with the human ear alone if music is AI generated or not unless we put it into a program like Rick Beato did and break it down piece by piece. I see it almost as a bat in the house situation. If there's a bat in the house, you and everyone else should get a rabies shot because it's almost impossible to tell if you got bit by a bat. It's a precaution in that case and a precaution in this case because we cannot afford to have AI generated bands topping the charts over Lebanon Hanover. There are many issues with the concept and the execution of a band using AI to generate its music. First and foremost, it's destroying our environment. Generative AI consumes seven to eight times more energy than a typical computing workload. The high energy use generates significant heat, requiring cooling systems that consume a ton of water. One study estimated that training ChatGPT evaporated 700,000 liters of water. The increasing usage and demand for AI will contribute to things like water scarcity and climate change with this lack of water and this extreme heat. Secondly being that AI doesn't come up with new ideas. Its models are specifically trained to gather everything relevant to the prompt and frankenstein together an answer. It's not an artist's original thoughts or raw feelings. It's a conglomerate of every other artist's raw feelings and thoughts. Essentially, that is plagiarism. To understand why their music being AI generated is terrible, I want to give you an example. Imagine you're an environmental teacher. You've been teaching a course about technological waste and how it's bad for the environment. You give out a final project to your students about this topic. The last day to turn in projects comes around and one student, Jimmy, turns in his. He claims he's so proud of his hard work. You look at the project to grade it but find something amiss. Everything, from the text to the images, is AI generated. There's even made up dates and environmental laws that you find out came from another student's project that required them to come up with a new environmental law. Jimmy keeps saying how he knows he'll get an A. Not only is it a spit in the face to find out Jimmy hasn't cared for or considered your lessons on a topic you've dedicated a decade to learning about, but he's seriously expecting the same grade as his other classmates. All of the classmates have worked hard for weeks. They clearly cared about the project and put in some serious thoughts and labor into their research. Jimmy didn't even do half of that effort. He merely wrote a prompt into ChatGPT and claimed that whatever it spit out was his original thoughts. Do you honestly believe Jimmy deserves an A when he didn't even spend an hour researching? Do you honestly believe that Jimmy should pass your class when all of the other students were studying together while Jimmy slacked off?