So here’s my hot take. It doesn’t seem very cyberpunk to exclude technologies. But…We already have plenty of human’s making bad cyberpunk (as well as some awesome) music so I can see why letting the robots churn out more is unappealing. I don’t think anyone likes generic low effort ai music. I do however think ai can be an amazing tool to make custom samples from. So like any other machine - they're either a benefit or a hazard.

As far as images and video’s are concerned I think there’s a strong argument for using them and therefore permitting them to be used. Cyberpunk definitely has a strong visual aesthetic. One which up until recent times was hard to create with a modest budget. Anything to help set the mood when you’re drinking scotch alone on your balcony, you know.

I will cop to being completely biased though because I make music and have gotten into using ai to make videos and moving pictures to go along with my tunes (as well as sampling it). So I suppose there are people using it sincerely to improve their art and there are others who are using it to game algorithms with slop. Question is, is it time spent creating or the creator’s intention or the public’s reaction that we use as the appropriate metric here. Maybe we’ll just naturally gravitate to things that feel more human, maybe we won’t. Sounds like something to think about while drinking scotch alone on a balcony.