In a world where you have all the musical masterpieces of history available to you with one tap why would you waste time listening to algorithmically generated mediocrity?
If the result is too same-y and you get bored of it, no problem, just hit the big red button. The AI also knows how to make a new song which is just different enough to excite you again, but still familiar enough to grab you in all the right ways.
We've tried it with social media (a feed generated and tuned to keep your brain clicking on ads), and the end result seems close enough to an utter disaster (in terms of impacts on society and humans) to try to avoid doing that thing again, in a different space.
Therefore, I'm sure it will happen quickly, and someone will make a lot of money on it. Feedback chambers are clearly profitable.
The interesting parts of being human, though (IMO...), are finding the different things you like. In the musical realm, conversations with other people about music where you have somewhat different tastes, find overlap, and have to be able to describe music in forms they'll understand (I personally prefer doing this without any actual music available to listen to...) is just fun.
As is tossing on something with a lot of randomness in the mix, finding something interesting, and going and exploring their catalog. I'll suggest Unleash the Archers, Northwest Passage, should you be interested in the "metal Canadian folk covers" category.
The smooth drug of AI-generated brain-rut music... sorry. I'll pass.
I’ve never heard of someone enjoying a song more after the 100th time. I’d say there’s a sweet spot around the 3rd or 4th play for me, after that I enjoy the song less on each play.
The actual numbers are quite a bit higher since not all of the listens have been tracked.
I still listen to this artist daily.
One thing that would be innovative / creative:
Imagine if an artist writes a song, then trains an AI on their own new song.
After doing that, they could have the AI produce a hundred variations of the song, and crowdsource which one is the best.
I understand they do something with commercials, but in a manual way. They basically publish multiple commercials and then measure the response to gauge which commercial resonates the most.
I've easily put thousands of hours on the Flying Fortress option - both my kids slept better with the low background rumble of WWII bombers thundering away in their rooms (the womb is very loud, and, yes, there's a womb noise simulator too), and I love it for office background noise, though my office doesn't have other people in it (typically).
I'm far, far more comfortable paying for this sort of thing, where he's gone and sampled stuff in person, than with something that's just "scraped the internet" and replicated something or another.
The Grateful D-AI-d?
I think I know some people who might enjoy that.
AI increasing the music in the world and lowering the bar to creation will mean it can both generate music specific to a few people's tastes and guaranteed top 100 hits in some regions. Much like many human artists can do today.
What if AI consumes the masterpieces of history, and then generates something even better, like how chess AI surpassed human chess masters?
(same idea as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35632879 )