Latest / ArTEEtude: Art, culture and the creative mind. Never so close again. - with Detlef Schlich

#Arteetude 342 — While sitting in Bantry, Detlef Schlich overhears a conversation that becomes the starting point for a media-archaeological investigation. A frustrated street musician blames AI for the end of creativity, while his girlfriend answers with humour, irony and unexpected wisdom. Together with AI co-host Sophia, Detlef asks whether artificial intelligence is truly the greatest threat to music—or simply the latest suspect in one of humanity's oldest stories. The episode ends with the new Los Inorgánicos track “The Future Has Ancestors.”
Is artificial intelligence really destroying music?Or are we simply repeating one of humanity's oldest conversations?In this episode of Arteetude, a chance encounter in a café in Bantry becomes the starting point for a media-archaeological investigation. A frustrated street musician blames AI for the end of creativity, while his girlfriend answers with humour, irony and unexpected wisdom.What begins as an amusing dialogue gradually unfolds into a much larger philosophical question:Has every generation feared the newest medium?From streaming and digital recording to radio, the gramophone and…
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