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Irish composer Jennifer Walshe on AI music: ‘If you came up with the idea for I Glued My Balls to My Butthole Again, is that art?’

The Oxford professor of composition’s long use of artificial intelligence in her work makes her a good judge of its merits and its dangers

Jennifer Walshe: 'It’s not like they just typed in "Frank Sinatra singing Gangster’s Paradise", and it just popped that out. There are levels of human ingenuity involved.' Photograph: Tom Jamieson/New York Times
Jennifer Walshe: 'It’s not like they just typed in "Frank Sinatra singing Gangster’s Paradise", and it just popped that out. There are levels of human ingenuity involved.' Photograph: Tom Jamieson/New York Times

Patrick Freyne

Patrick Freyne

Patrick Freyne is a features writer with The Irish Times