Artificial Intelligence (AI) Will Lead To A Revival Of In-Person Events

The purpose of human existence is to create, observe, and nurture beautiful things together in-person.

Whether it's painting, carpentry, poetry, steelwork, writing, architecture, dance, Broadway, landscaping, movies, music, television - each of these crafts has the same end goal: to make something beautiful that stands the test of time because other humans appreciate and relate to a personal expression/creation.

Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly being used to cut costs across creative industries with a clear goal of profit maximization at the expense of human artists.

Companies like Spotify are already training their AI on the music on their platform and generating their own AI artists. These AI artists are also favored by Spotify's playlist-selecting-bots.

And who gets the royalties from these AI artists? Spotify.

A complete economic circle owned by Spotify based on AI models trained on our art without any compensation paid to us artists. The incentives for this to continue are clear. What business wouldn't create and promote their own AI artists if they can learn from all the content on their platform, control the playlists, and curate the most influential placements? Profit maximization is to be expected in our current capitalist oligarchy.

It is clearly just the beginning of these AI artists. Every 3-5 months there have been massive leaps forward in AI models over the past several years.

My belief for several years now has been that we will see Spotify and other streaming platforms increasingly over-run with these AI bands over the coming years. The incentives for playlists to be crowded with AI artists owned by the app are just too great.

This barrage of AI "slop" will be devoid of the human emotion inherent to real art - and this over-saturation of digital art - and a general distrust of who is behind said art - will lead a substantial portion of the population to seek unique, authentic, in-person music events on a scale not seen since before the COVID pandemic.

That's one of the driving forces around why I created Random Strangers Jam in 2022, began trademarking it in 2023, and secured the US federal trademark registration in January 2025 to begin scaling to additional cities.

Every single Random Strangers Jam is one-of-a-kind and will never happen again in the same way. Every 5-7 minutes a new group of random strangers jam on an improvised funk rock concept. Anyone can be a stranger and join the jam. 100% organic, human created music by real musicians connecting and vibing with each other in the moment.   Authentic, irreplicable experiences.

Many of our musicians at the jam ("jammers") performed years ago and fell out of practice only to have their fire reignited by our community. It's common for adults focused on their careers to fall out of touch with the hobbies that inspired them to dream as a kid.

The thing is: those same hobbies you loved as a kid remain relevant as an adult and can be a massive turboboost for your mental health. They are also probably the settings in which you made the most friends.

Thousands of attendees of Random Strangers Jam sessions can attest to this simple fact. New confidence. New bandmates. New friends. If you let your inner voice breath, you realize your inner child never dies.

The concept of adulting pushes us to suffocate that voice.

Music and books and art and cinema have always been the sounds to fill our internal void of meaninglessness. And right now, we consume all of these things through virtual spaces.

Once these virtual realms become saturated with machine generated creations devoid of the human touch, the importance of in-person events, authenticity, and community will grow at an exponential rate as the only way to know if something or someone is real will be to show up in person and see for yourself.

When you are ready, Random Strangers Jam is excited to welcome you at an upcoming jam.

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