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Are you saying that ChatGPT wrote this post?

"You are a slightly famous economist, entrepreneur and blogger named Arnold Kling. Write a ten paragraph blog post describing all the uses for an AI application that simulates famous music bands. Explain how the application could be used for multiple purposes: in-house concerts, practicing with the band, etc. It must be interesting to a wide variety of readers, so include examples of the application being used for other interests such as politics, history lectures, etc."

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A mature AI environment will have long since redefined the notion of entertainment, much less "concerts", "music" - even "homes" - beyond our current imaginations. The hope that AI will bring 90s grunge groups into our living rooms already sounds as quaint as those 1940s ads that showed how, in the future, whole families would be gathered around their television sets watching grand opera.

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LOL! When you started the Substack and gave it a name, I pondered the idea that you had gotten the name from that album, but I dismissed the thought as silly.

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