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Speaker 1: The class is called Bots and Beats AI in the

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Speaker 1: Future of Songwriting, and some Berkeley College of Music students

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Speaker 1: don't think it should be offered. In fact, they don't

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Speaker 1: think AI should be mixed with music or taught.

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Speaker 2: I feel like, especially at a school like Berkeley, we

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Speaker 2: have at least we should have, or I thought we

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Speaker 2: had bigger standards than that.

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Speaker 3: This is something that ultimately is harming musicians.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, like everybody else, I think it's it's just it

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Speaker 4: devalues what we do as musicians and artists.

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Speaker 1: Over three hundred people have signed the online petition to

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Speaker 1: get rid of and stop promoting any generative AI at Berkeley.

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Speaker 1: Izzy as a junior, she attended a meeting students had

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Speaker 1: with faculty earlier this week to discuss.

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Speaker 3: We had a lot of people show up. The room was.

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Speaker 1: Packed, though she doesn't feel the meeting was very productive.

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Speaker 1: In a statement, Berkeley College of Music tells WBZ News

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Speaker 1: Radio that the school has a responsibility to prepare students

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Speaker 1: to navigate technologies impacting the creative industries. On mass av

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Speaker 1: I'm a freedman. W BEZ, Boston's news radio