AI in music

[Al Krow]

1 hour ago, edstraker123 said:

Rick Beato dissing AI music is really getting on my nerves. In one interview he mentioned Spotify marking the tracks as AI so people could avoid listening to them which I find ludicrous. I subscribe to it to listen to good music, some of the non-AI tracks he recommends are woeful. 

 

I've no issue with full disclosure ai labelling whether it be "fully ai generated", "ai assisted" etc - I think folk should be allowed to choose to support/listen to what they want in the same way that "free range" eggs is a useful label?

 

But I agree that there is plenty of human slop out there! Would it be fair to say that 99.99% of original material uploaded could be regarded as derivative and uninteresting?

 

Most successful solo artists / songwriters are using session musicians to lay down the backing tracks. It seems to me that the latter could well be a first music casualty of war with the new tech (just as software engineers, audit juniors etc are finding in their fields of work). Where ai is going to struggle to compete is full band live performances with no backing tracks - and that is where I'm going to be focussing my live bass playing. If we end up including songs that have an ai imprint rather than purely covering other folk's back catalogue, I'm cool with that - the human interaction with an audience will remain intact.

 

Edited 2 hours ago by Al Krow

[TimR]

Geoffrey Hinton talks to Neil DeGrasse Tyson.

 

You may have difficulty sleeping after listing to this discussion. 

 

https://open.spotify.com/episode/30xO8jBd3jynb7mOAE1v0O?si=0-buIMDXTBanSOYeEMCL_w&context=spotify%3Ashow%3A1mNsuXfG95Lf76YQeVMuo1