Did AI Just End Music? (Now it’s Personal) ft. Rick Beato

"This is all backwards. AI was supposed to do my chores while I enjoy doing what I like. It was not supposed to do what I like so that I can focus on the chores." - A comment I saw some time ago.

Perfect! AI can code, write music, make art while we humans only have to worry about hard labor and getting stuck in an office cubicle, slaving off our debts

Considering how low the bar is now for a no. 1 Billboard hit, it's not too surprising that AI will be able to compete.

I'm not surprised. People claim they want something new, but all they really want is a variation / derivative of something they already know and want. AI is amazing at that.

So ironic how "art" was the main subject people said that Robots would never be able to replicate. We ended up getting AI art even before commercial humanoid robots. Edit: That's some spicy comment section right there 🌶🌶🌶🌶🌶

As a music professional who has scored a lot of TV series that were (are) very well known, I can say that sampling technology absolutely impacted the live recording scene significantly in Los Angeles. My first two Disney series in the late 90s were with live players, anywhere from 15 to 46. By 2001 the sampling technology had progressed to the point where Disney stopped using orchestras for their TV series. Even so the technology was such that Orchestration for live players and Synthestration for samples in a MIDI studio were two different ‘arts’ or processes. That started to change when VSL came in the scene and you could, to a large extent, orchestrate for samples the way that you orchestrated for a live ensemble. Today sampling technology is so good that even when live orchestras are used in film, the samples often remain in the final mix. So the drum machine story that Rick (who is awesome) mentioned is much more complex than the simple, ‘drummers started playing like drum machines and their jobs were safe’ narrative. Having written that, I have no plans to buy a T-shirt of my favorite AI musician. The human act of creating art will always matter for the simple reason that we ourselves are not machines.

I've tried Udio. It's impressive. I generated a few song parts in which singers sound like Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins, Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters, the singer from Franz Ferdinand... The music was very close to how those bands sound too. They've definitely scanned copyrighted material.

I personally think every social media app you log onto should show the option to block AI content such as images, video and music right off the bat, and people should be forced to tag all their AI creations appropriately or risk getting their accounts removed.

Video game music is gonna be 99% ai generated in the future

Now Skynet will be singing 2000s R&B while murdering us

I quit putting my music up online for sales. I quit all social media to sell my music. When sites were requiring using my music to train their AI models, i got off those sites and pulled my music. I was training my own replacement.

Maybe as everyone gets dumbed down people that can actually play and write music will become rare but held in high regard. I was at a vinyl store yesterday and it was packed with young people…the human spirit will push back and crave for something real…

"I can't wait till computer take over all the terrible jobs so that humans can spend their time doing creative things" 'Oh, turns out the creative things are actually way easier for the computers to do. Looks like you'll have to keep the terrible jobs going'

Whoa! This is a crossover I hadn’t expected.

I think an underappreciated aspect or why we enjoy music is the knowledge that a person achieved it. It's connecting to another person's message. A.I has taken the freedom to wonder what a musicians inspirations were without doubting it's even human at all. One of the biggest ways to communicate emotionally through the ages will no longer be supported by the industry. It's certainly freeing for people who don't know how to write music, but you're not expressing yourself if you just prompt an AI to twist other people's work. Part of a musician's journey is discovering and honing their sound, and expressing themselves with it. If you're not made for your passion, your passion will make you. If you're not passionate about your craft, your output will be low effort and soulless. All AI will do is allow those creations to drown out truly passionate artists and cut their wages.

amazing to find some balanced commentary on this topic. I kinda needed that actually, been freaking out just quietly.

I asked Udio to create a track in the style of Chopin and got a message saying "We do not generate artist likeness without permission, we have replaced Chopin with: romanticism, western classical music..." Then it proceeded to write something that within 2 seconds reminded me of the Nocturne Op. 62 No. 2. Incredibly impressive, but that text doesn't seem to mean a lot.

Whenever someone says "Now, everybody can create music / drawings / art", I shiver. It doesn't have anything to do with "creating". It's writing a prompt and clicking a button - it's basically just downloading from an infinite library.

Pulling sounds out of the ether is the best part of creating music! That’s real magic✨ the ai music just still feels, ick.

thank you for involving the amazingly professional Rick Beato