It's going to happen, you know it is: you're going to hear a killer track and you discover that the whole thing is AI.

I see no reason AI won't one day be able to create music better than humans can - including simulating human feel and emotion better than humans are able. I'm afraid we're the apes in this evolutionary race.

 

Have you guys tried the new chatGPT? I was so amazed by it and it's answers. Like it or not, the AI is already here.

 

This conversation is silly. AI is a tool.

This is like asking: who owns the copyright to the picture... the camera?

 

When I saw the title of this thread I wasn't expecting it to be about the legal aspects of AI and copyright. The way it usually goes is whomever has the biggest bank account will likely be the one to win that battle, and that's that, not a lot to discuss.

I think the far more thought consuming aspect of AI and the music industry is what will record labels do to sort out talent, as the talent increasingly becomes machine driven and involves artists that frequently aren't really 'artists' at all? How do you decide what artists to invest in, when potential 'product' isn't based on the skills of an individual but rather, the quality of the software and machines they have at their disposal?

I think AI is potentially leading us back to an industry based on one-hit wonders, as was so often the case in the 1960's recording industry. The reason I say that is once a record label realizes that a "hit" wasn't based on artistry as much as it was due to luck, software, and machines, they will quickly drop that artist because he or she is someone that will not necessarily be able to repeat their initial AI success in the way a person with true artistry might be capable of. In other words, labels will only be able to invest in a particular song, not an artist. Either that or they'll just invest in proprietary AI software and create their own music without even signing a so-called artist.

Let's face it, when everyone can sound somewhere between good and great regardless of their music skills, mediocrity then becomes the status quo.

 

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