This generation coming up about to listen to the most generic music in history, art without expression, film without a vision..........
what's crazy is a lot of the artistry has ALREADY been sucked out of it with what we have now.
i do think that if you take a musical genius and give them AI and the tools to work with it you can probably produce some music that is incdedibly pleasant to the ear, dare i say you could probably take a genius and create a classic on paper with generative AI assistance easily.
and i promise you AI in music defenders will say that you can argue an era died when computers became involved in the first place (and they might not be wrong to some extent, but it still required something), but generative AI is a different monster. I'm someone who is not musically trained at all, fukked around with an MPC and fruity loops in high school, but couldn't make shyt that fully sounded good. i could get a little something going, a nice baseline or something melodic, but just from having listened to music for years and having good taste in my opinion, I can now use the generative AI to actually fill all the gaps I was missing.
now imagine an actual musical genius with it, let alone a semi trained one. they'd blow the little bullshyt i made tonight out of the water with ease.
music is going to become something different. the people with the highest powered tools are going to be in an ivory tower as always, but also with all the algorithmic information on what people listen to on top of it. especially now that most music consumption comes through apps not the radio/our physically owned media.
the problem with AI in music for the actual musicians is there's no union like film. there's no fukked up hand that people can see in an AI image to even the untrained eye. music is definitely going to be the first industry cannibalized by this shyt if it hasn't been already.
app.suno.ai
yeah this is starting to get legit spooky
