I had an epiphany about AI and musicians who use it extensively.

[ners]

Blasted this in my car for like a month before I found out it was AI...super bummed there was nothing to go see or learn about.

 

[gibson5413]

AI makes the average person a song writer in the same way that the iPhone made everyone a professional photographer.

Here's my take... the value of music died in the early 2000s. Napster was the opening salvo. These days, music holds no real value to the average listener. Right now, AI is a novel thing. A record company can pay one dud to sit in the basement and generate entire albums without the risks associated in signing a band. These days, all you need to have a hit song is a laptop and a pretty face to dance to whatever "music" you generated on said laptop.

Agreed. Plus, the record companies are shrinking in revenues, so AI helps as they don't have to invest heavily in up and coming artists. No more expensive studio times and rushing the bands to hurry and record. I am far from a Boomer and I know the old model had its huge issues but I miss the creative process of bands hunkering down and writing, rehearsing and recording. Yeah, there was a lot of junk that came from it but it felt honest.

 

[gibson5413]

My real fear in releasing my music online is that in the near future when inevitably, my social credit score dips below the threshold, and the Tesla T100 killbots come to eliminate me, they’ll be playing an A.I. mashup of one of my own songs combined with some artist I really hate. My last few moments on earth will be hell.

I have been seeing examples of musicians having their music and ideas stolen, and there is almost nothing the individual can do about it. Again, the old model, where the studios owned about everything, had its issues, but at least those companies could use lawyers to go after the copyright issues. They could, at the very least, protect the intellectual property. The problem is they did it for themselves and profits as opposed to the actual musicians. It is all so messed up.

 

[SaberRed]

Anecdotally, I have been talking with some pro songwriters in the UK about their attitudes towards generative AI and songwriting, and apparently some songwriters are using it.