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Earlier this year, graphic designers, last month it was software engineers, and now musicians are also feeling the effects.

Who else will AI make looking for a new job?

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Musicians were made to get a day job long before you were born ;)

Although I do wonder how much an earlier technology, audio reproduction, contributed to that. My grandmother worked for a time as a piano player as part of a nightclub orchestra. It was a stable job back then. I have to wonder how many musician jobs were killed off by the jukebox and related technologies.

Honestly none of them should. I think the moral panic around these things is way overstated. They are cool but hardly about to replace anyone's job.

Have you tried AI asset generators? They are working extremely good. Just yesterday a friend of mine has shown me the progress they made in their game. It is incredible. Designers are 100% loosing their job over this.

I'm a professional game developer and excited AI enthusiast.

While I've seen a lot of cool stuff which helps generation for hobby projects or smaller indie games it's nowhere near the quality and consistency needed to come close to the work of a skilled human artist at a larger studio.

Yes, and I studied Game Development in Germany for 3 years in Düsseldorf, got third at the national gameforge newcomer award with my team "Northlight Games" and still have many connections to the people in the business (if this somehow matters). The quality for 2d assets is on very professional level and already replaced jobs in projects I know.

To give you an example join the public discord of https://www.scenario.gg and check out results. Come back and tell me those aren't on a professional level.

I am not saying that designers won't be needed anymore but AI is definitely able to replace jobs and speed up progress in game development.

If I was a musician, this post would not make me worry for a second

If a hack based on an image generator already has promising results for music generation, then imagine what will happen if something dedicated to music is built from the ground up.

Politicians, bureaucracy.

GPT-3, what policy should we apply to increase tax revenue by 5% given these constraints?

GPT-3, please tell me some populist thing to say to win the next election, or how should I deflect these corruption charges.

"We should place a tax on all copyright lawyers and use it to fund GPU manufacturing and AI development. At your next stump speech, mention how the entertainment industry is stealing jobs from construction workers. Your corruption charges won't matter because voters only care about corruption when it's not in their favor."

Isn’t this the plot of Deus Ex?

The raw outputs of these tools will be best consumed by experts. Until general AI, these are just better tools for the same workers.

They were killed off by the ability to record the data. Every city used to have their own music stars :)

This was the first AI thing to fill me with a feeling of existential dread.

What is with the hyperbole in this thread? This stuff sounds like incoherent noise. It is noticeably worse than AI audio stuff I heard 5 years ago. What is going on with the responses here?

Usage of an image generator to produce passable music fragments, even if they sound a bit distorted, is very surprising. That type of novelty is why we come here.

People did the same with GANs years ago with similar odd results. I do think the kinks will eventually be ironed out but i don’t think this is it.

I assume the stuff from 5 years ago was essentially spitting out a midi output which would be fed in to a traditional tool to play samples. So it's going to sound a lot sharper while being a lot less sophisticated. The real breakthrough here is this is generating everything from scratch and it still resembles the prompt.

One of the automated prompts was "Eminem anger rap", I'm confident if you had showed me the audio without the prompt I could identify which artist it sounded like.

And this is just a basic first attempt at reusing a tool not even designed for audio. I can only imagine how powerful it could be after some trivial revisions like using GPT-3 to generate coherent lyrics.

I feel exactly the opposite way, but I suppose everyone has a different ear and taste. I think a good 3-4% of what this produces sounds damn amazing and beautiful. I've been vibing to it a lot. Fantastic stuff! There is also the feeling of shock and awe like with ChatGPT where you give it a prompt about a niche thing you think it will definitely not understand and it turns out it understands it shockingly well. As an example I just gave it a prompt "Avril 4th" and the result literally gave me chills.

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