“Soon we won’t be needed anymore, you can make your own Tote Hosen song if you like,” says Campino – and reports on his first experiences with AI.
Tote Hosen singer Campino (61), as a visiting professor at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf, pointed out the danger of social media algorithms for social discussions. “The loudest and most aggressive always wins against the most objective,” said Campino on Tuesday during his second lecture at the university.
The truth has been replaced as the highest good, it no longer plays the decisive role, as Donald Trump has shown. Campino spoke out in favor of establishing media literacy as a separate school subject. Given the challenges, one teaching unit is not enough.
Artificial intelligence (AI) will undoubtedly trigger major upheavals. It sent cold shivers down his spine when he tried out what AI can already do in music production: “If we want that, Olaf Scholz will sing the next Tote Hosen album.” The good thing is: “Soon we won’t be needed anymore, you can make your own Tote Hosen song if you like it,” said Campino.
20,000 people applied for a place in Campino’s second and final lecture, 680 fit into the university’s largest lecture hall. Title of the lecture: “Everyone has something to say. The cacophony of our time”.
Before Campino, Helmut Schmidt, Juli Zeh, Wolf Biermann, Siegfried Lenz, Joschka Fischer, Antje Vollmer, Karl Cardinal Lehmann, Ulrich Wickert, Joachim Gauck and most recently Klaus-Maria Brandauer were visiting professors at the university. The first Heinrich Heine visiting professor was Marcel Reich-Ranicki in 1991.
Source: Stern
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