Horowitz: AI music reanimation won't stifle creativity, similar to hip-hop sampling
Ben Horowitz · Advancing AI, Approaching VC's & Crypto Scandals: Ask Us Anything! · Dec 5, 2023 · at 52:31
a16z co-founder Ben Horowitz pushes back against Marc Andreessen's concern that AI voice synthesis and holograms will trap culture in permanent nostalgia.
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“I don't think so because you know, like, look, if you don't have a new novel way to do something or create art, then sure, that's going to be better than what you do. But like, if you look at hip hop, You know, they kind of brought James Brown back to life you know, with samples, and, but the music was all new, and it created all kinds of new stars, and interestingly, they weren't even the James Brown records that were hits. They were all the stuff that he did kind of post his peak ended up being the things that, that, that people wanted to kind of reuse in, in the samples. So it was both kind of a rebirth of You know, a lot of the James Brown music that nobody had ever heard. And then it was, you know, a whole new class of music, a whole new art form.”
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