Comment by Riverheart
3 years ago
"This is the critical insight. Human artists having nothing to worry about. Human drawers do."
The reason why amazing music is valued so much is because there's so much music that you have to be amazing to be noticed. Art has had that problem for a long time. Someone spends 100hrs of talent on a masterpiece and we say "meh, seen a thousand of that quality"
Learning theory is easier than applying it so becoming an artist is easier and now artists have more competition. Not advocating against AI art but it's obviously going to have a negative effect.
Do you think synthesizers and sequencers have had a negative effect on music?
In some ways, yes! At least for pop. I’m a huge fan of electronic music and synthesizers, but lowering the technical barrier to entry has resulted in some particularly bland pop music over the years making it to the top of the charts, for all the usual reasons of how music promotion is broken. I still think synths, sequencers, drum machines, and DAWs are a net plus to modern music, but there are of course negatives if you look for them.
Probably. I'm not qualified to weigh the pros/cons of it.
The internet is amazing but now a stranger from halfway across your world can drain your bank account. What doesn't have a negative effect?