I'm excited that AI makes all the boring musical stuff we do, all the rehashing of the same ole' cliche, really easy to do. So that now as a human you finally have some serious competition in the music ecosystem that is not just from other humans. New apex predator in town. Now the human, unable to compete with AI, will be forced to ask some deep questions and focus on doing things musically that the AI would never do, all the atrociously unique and human things will suddenly not be "fringe" but the creme de la creme, the essential and truly valuable.

There's a popular misnomer, where we call musicians a "creative" profession. A lot of it isn't, and is simply a craft or a marketplace for noisy peddlers. Ultimately no one is even going to be sad that the peddlers have to go, and everything they used to sell to the public's overactive imagination is now free for all. We have to remind ourselves as we face the nightmare age of AI about what true creation entails: bringing something that needed to be, but didn't exist yet, was not yet manifest, into being.

Everybody who simply wanted to sound like somebody else to be "just as successful as them" will be kicked out of the space because AI makes cheap imitation even more cheap. Everybody who wanted to be externally impressive by playing an instrument will also be de-throned and move on to other things (but not those who love an instrument and love playing). That's a good thing, IMHO. The space becomes more rarified, but it won't stay empty.

As ChatGPT would say, "This is not simply a process of weaning out excess. It's process of CONCENTRATION. You have not just been warned about what is coming, you have percieved the EVANGELION of future music."

To which I say "Shut up, ChatGPT. Your slop is running again."

 

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I always enjoyed listening to bedroom made music, raw, original, never too polished, always quirky, lot of potential, but never quite there, there was charm to it and 9/10 times if I stumbled upon music like that, I would listen to it entirely, comment and encourage someone to keep going. I'm a community guy, blessed to have chance to learn from people online, have huge respect for folks who decided to do it for the love of music, instead of chasing bag and career out of it, knowing far too well all the story and being there on the both sides.

Last few months stumbled upon so much AI generated stuff that I just stopped listening to unknown music and if someone can't waste time and years to make his own music, I have no time to waste listening to it either. There should be natural progress, you don't know shit about music, you make shitty music, you don't have great mixing chops, your music sounds like that and pretty much effort you make is easily recognized. Not you hum or write something and there's track you couldn't make if your life depended on it, perfectly mixed and all that.

So focused on just listening music that truly inspires me, made by folks who really have passion and love for music, which in return actually gave me all the inspiration and drive to put lot of more effort into my own music, invest more money into gear and studio and all that fun stuff.

I'm not elitist, never was, always was underdog and cheering for my own folks, that's why I always choose to listen to music my peeps made, hang on forums like this in order to give back and help somehow, never too critical, always found time to help anyone with anything, but yeah, essence of bedroom community is lost with AI, it's not just us regular schmucks trying to make noise to best of our abilities or for the fun of doing it.

But whatever makes you happy and all that, how ever you get there I guess, if you are happy, it's all that matters, I'm just not going to even bother with it anymore, not a big loss.

 

Yes, people will start to appreciate and focus on the creme de la creme of human music.

Just like fast food didn't displace restaurants, it only made them (and us) StRoNgEr (in the Darwinian sense).

Thank fuck for fast food automating and optimising all the boring, rehashed processes away. It finally made us ask the deep (fried) food questions and focus on real innovation - thanks to all that healthy CoMpeTitiOn.

Like *clicks fingers* yeah, uh. That dish.
You know, the one with the Indian spices.
The one with the yellow colour.
Real innovation.

Thank fast food for putting an end to slow food.
Look at how healthy everyone is now!
No one needs to have the grease pulled out of their arteries anymore.
No one's out of breath anymore.
Everyone's a real picture of health.

But.. let me guess.

"Doesn't affect me. ROFL I'm ahead of the curve, I'm so smart, lmao, don't give a fuck about anyone else HEH HEH HEH."


Ah fuck. The battery on my power chair is dying. How am I gonna get from the counter to the ice cream vending machine with this body of mine that is bursting at the seams? Call 911, it's a foodmergency, 4000 cal a day of same-same won't do!

 

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