Have any of those who are concerned about AI preventing them from creating great music ever written a hit song, or are likely to in the near future?

If no, yet you think AI can just pull one outta the hat just like that.

For whatever reasons it is that makes you think or know you can't or won't ever write a great hit, AI will have the same or similar problems.

If AI ever does, er, Write? Produce? Make Up perhaps, a massive hit, it will be the exception that proves the rule und a hunan will be at the helm, AI excels at calculations, humans at intuition, creating Art is about, among many other human attributes, intuition.

But i really don't care where great music comes from, us or them, it's only the quality of the music that matters, not how it came into being.

 

You just forgot a point : AI create NOTHING.

It just steal human VIRTUAL production found on the internet.
And re arrange the stolen parts, crediting NOBODY.

Go ask AI to make you a sandwich
And when your fridge will be empty, ask AI to fill it ...

This thread is the fastest way to find ppl for my "ignore" list.

 

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it still can happen that after the maximum possible introduction of autogenerated content into the market, real music and its distribution will be reborn simply because you can make more money with it.

AI music in the quality of suno music from today can be created live and locally, directly on the kids iphones, in less than 4 years from now, using free software and free databases/models. in that kind of content lies basically no future market.

 

yep.

currently big platforms are forced by law to ask uploaders if they have cleared the copyrights.

one could extend that idea to let people only upload things while mentioning the kind of clearing (yours, you are allowed to use it by the right holder, public domain, creative commons...)

only the obligation to declare things ("this is human composed music by me or by mr. john doe") by legislation will lead to responsible actions.

 

Another practical aspect that's not really discussed -

Its a horrible working model for creatives.

Suno etc are basically subscription services, attached to a complex data server infrastructure. You are entirely dependant on a system that demands expensive monthly subscription payments, yet you own nothing - neither the output or the hardware making it.

A lot of AI companies (i think its most) are losing money right now. Subscriptions are charged at a loss to get users onboard. Just before xmas reports came in that certain large investment groups and tech companies were starting to get jittery and becoming reticent to inject more money into the sector.

Music gen AI isn't something you can do at home.

Due to different data and input formatting, company models sound and work differently, so your prompts are only usable at one company.

If you are a 'creative' making a career in this system, you are entirely reliant on various interdependent companies staying afloat. The 'artist' is at shitty end of wobbly barely sustainable infrastructure.

It could all just stop tomorrow. Suno could burn through their money, stop paying one bill, get cut off and your 'sound' or 'talent' instantly evaporates, your career is basically over in a day.

Not very comforting long term.

Also why a lot of creative groups aren't becoming dependant on big AI.

 

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