Some colleagues often go on about the threat of Chat GPT. I do not feel the end is nigh. Maybe because we musicians adjusted to sampled instruments twenty-five years ago? Not to mention mouse-dragging alteration pitch or time correction or new sound experimentation expanding filters and envelopes. I recall in the 90s, many times people wanted my agreement that piano samples were real. I disagreed over and over until one day I couldn’t tell them apart. It was 100% accurate as perfect as a recorded piano (because it was playing back recordings of single piano notes spatially blended perfectly). Maybe that is why now I prefer wonky uprights. Maybe it is just more special to hear what is rare. I like the problem Chat GPT makes for me. I have to think about the language of the assignment, whether a student can enter it like a question or not. There is another stimulating problem to consider, namely, if the student is using a computer to do their work should I be concerned with catching them or should I acknowledge they are unconcerned about the value of making the effort we previously expected. Why should they? Should they not use a calculator? Should they not use a guitar tuner? How many successful “musicians” in the world of modern popular music, actually have the music skills we would have assumed yesteryear vs. they can push buttons that trigger stock sounds or arpeggios from the manufacturer and they legally call them instruments they played. I do not regret my music skills or trying to train others to develop such skills but in The Soft Parade when Jim Morrison screamed You Cannot Petition The Lord With Prayer, he might just have meant you cannot police the game of technology. It might be better to reconsider other ways to play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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