Comment by nartho
2 days ago
The issue is not so much an artist that will use it as a tool, even though there is much to say about it, it's the hundred of thousands of people with no interest in music whatsoever, that will flood the platforms in order to make a quick buck.
> it's the hundred of thousands of people with no interest in music whatsoever, that will flood the platforms in order to make a quick buck.
Whenever I look at popular artists on streaming platforms, I see 'remixes' where people just slowed down the particular original song and added reverb or some other silly effect to it. I don't think AI existing or not will change the behaviour of people trying to make a quick buck. If they aren't using AI, they'll use a different tool as they did before.
People who won’t invest anything and just want to make a quick buck won’t be successful with AI generated content/music.
You still need to invest significant time and effort to make it work.
Musicians who are being threatened by AI impersonating them, flooding the market with music like theirs, and otherwise actually harmed by this would disagree with you. Benn Jordan speaks at length about it in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVXfcIb3OKo
They will be successful in drowning out the artists. Not individually so, but collectively.
They are though by sheer volume. Finding anything half good will be a needle in a planet sized haystack of slop.
This has already been the case way before AI was a thing.
As a new artist you have to compete against 60+ years of music history - much of it really good music too.
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You're right, but for EDM this was pretty much already the case. The scene survives in large part thanks to DJs who wade through countless mediocre tracks looking for the few hidden gems to deploy at the right moment. I think AI means that DJs will become much more important in all genres.
LOL you clearly haven’t checked the flows of million-plus-views ambient music bullshit videos on YouTube
I never said it’s impossible to be successful with slop, i said it still needs work and time investment to be successful
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How many engineers are using ai-generated software libraries at this point? This could be all over github, but the software mostly sucks (because the AI doesn’t do architecture and real engineering, that has to be input into it right now). Increasing the volume of production doesn’t necessarily lead to the abandonment of the “good stuff”. You still have to compose the music and write the lyrics, the AI is not sophisticated enough to competently do that right now