“According to ChatGPT, there are countless ways artificial intelligence can be useful to dance artists: Need a brainstorming partner? Help planning rehearsals? A tool for generating new movement? A way of documenting your work? Look no further than the buzzy chatbot technology, it told me when I asked.
But don’t worry: The chatbot also said that “while ChatGPT can be a valuable tool for choreographers, it should not replace the artistic intuition and expertise that come from years of training and experience.”
If it sounds like the robot doth protest too much, that may be its attempt to acknowledge a growing existential concern, as the dance world reckons with the current and possible future impacts of ever-expanding artificial-intelligence tools. These technologies are further complicating the dance world’s already-broken relationships to copyright, crediting, compensation, and consent. And, yes, they could potentially remove artists from the dancemaking process.“