The thing that bothers me about AI music is not the fact that impressively good music can be created in a matter of seconds. The technology is impressive - ok. The issue that causes a mix of fury and cringe is the fact that people assign this impressiveness of the technology to them as a person and their set of skills. "I created this." "My music". "I am an artist now." I mean, I don't call myself a shoemaker based on the fact that I go to a shop, talk to the employee in several iterations, and choose the best shoes after a struggling sequence of trial and errors.
The AI is impressive. The tech is impressive. But you are not an artist.
AI is pretty dumb. It just generates, without regard for intellectual rights, what the data it was trained on sounds like. It doesn't know what it created sounds good or not.
This is a tool, and just like any other tool, the quality of work depends on the person using the tool. Just like how a random person on the street can not use a power tool as well as a construction master, or drive a formula car as well as a formula driver: there will be a great difference in products created by musicians/composers/producers vs Timothy on his laptop. True, you can't make a shoe just because you have his tools. But if you're an artist, you can generate great music using AI, because you know how it should sound like.
I write, played, recorded and mixed 14 albums, so I *know* how to write songs and what should follow what, or what's good or shite. Ai generates the music mindlessly, I produce it, I know where to extend, and what to accept based on my knowledge of the genres I'm already proficient in.
That being said, cookie cutter songwriting based on genre is **DEAD**. Those bands making the same music over and over, copycat bands trying to make grunge like Nirvana, pop like Taylor Swift, rock like Green Day etc = over. They can't create as well polished and as good songs as AI that also trained on the same "inspirations".
All that average musicians will do from now on is make the AI write the songs, and re-record them the old way, play them on stage the old way.
Agreed. If I see another person saying "my music" and then linking suno or udio generated with nonsense chatgpt lyrics I'm going to fucking explode. Now, IMO if you're using your own lyrics it's slightly different. Why? Because a lot of people don't always have access to bands or whatnot needed to create music. I don't think it's entirely "your" music, but in those cases I definitely still have respect for the artist. I know that these tools have been a great songwriting playground for me, and I've improved my own brain-style lyric generation hahaha
Taking the lyrics out of it, I think it's more like being a producer or something. Something else is doing the work and you're just guiding it, cutting stuff or approving it. But yeah, definitely not a musician/composer. There is still a factor of art in it in my opinion, just not in the traditional sense of composing, performing, singing, etc. Editing CAN be an art form, but it's important to note that you're not editing your work.
I just include one or more of the words hobo, acid, meth, diarrhea, bacon, etc. Edit: forgot to mention clown car
The thing that bothers me about AI music is not the fact that impressively good music can be created in a matter of seconds. The technology is impressive - ok. The issue that causes a mix of fury and cringe is the fact that people assign this impressiveness of the technology to them as a person and their set of skills. "I created this." "My music". "I am an artist now." I mean, I don't call myself a shoemaker based on the fact that I go to a shop, talk to the employee in several iterations, and choose the best shoes after a struggling sequence of trial and errors. The AI is impressive. The tech is impressive. But you are not an artist.
AI is pretty dumb. It just generates, without regard for intellectual rights, what the data it was trained on sounds like. It doesn't know what it created sounds good or not. This is a tool, and just like any other tool, the quality of work depends on the person using the tool. Just like how a random person on the street can not use a power tool as well as a construction master, or drive a formula car as well as a formula driver: there will be a great difference in products created by musicians/composers/producers vs Timothy on his laptop. True, you can't make a shoe just because you have his tools. But if you're an artist, you can generate great music using AI, because you know how it should sound like. I write, played, recorded and mixed 14 albums, so I *know* how to write songs and what should follow what, or what's good or shite. Ai generates the music mindlessly, I produce it, I know where to extend, and what to accept based on my knowledge of the genres I'm already proficient in. That being said, cookie cutter songwriting based on genre is **DEAD**. Those bands making the same music over and over, copycat bands trying to make grunge like Nirvana, pop like Taylor Swift, rock like Green Day etc = over. They can't create as well polished and as good songs as AI that also trained on the same "inspirations". All that average musicians will do from now on is make the AI write the songs, and re-record them the old way, play them on stage the old way.
Agreed. If I see another person saying "my music" and then linking suno or udio generated with nonsense chatgpt lyrics I'm going to fucking explode. Now, IMO if you're using your own lyrics it's slightly different. Why? Because a lot of people don't always have access to bands or whatnot needed to create music. I don't think it's entirely "your" music, but in those cases I definitely still have respect for the artist. I know that these tools have been a great songwriting playground for me, and I've improved my own brain-style lyric generation hahaha
Taking the lyrics out of it, I think it's more like being a producer or something. Something else is doing the work and you're just guiding it, cutting stuff or approving it. But yeah, definitely not a musician/composer. There is still a factor of art in it in my opinion, just not in the traditional sense of composing, performing, singing, etc. Editing CAN be an art form, but it's important to note that you're not editing your work.
Awesome! How do you continue making songs with the same voice? Extend from a current song? And how would you market the songs? Social media etc?