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Don't worry; this "yuck" will do better than you in near future :)

What a distasteful comment. Please be more considerate.

There’s no honour among thieves.

First, I'm no musician and have no desire to be one.

Second, every musician on earth right now are "thieves" for they stole what they heard, reprocessed it, repackaged it and output their "own" :)

No consideration for holier than thou attitude.

Define "better"? ;)

A state where these "yuck musicians" will cry more because they can't compete.

Are synth sounds that emulate strings dehumanizing because they don't take years to master? Is the electric guitar fake? Is the arrangement of a six string guitar's strings in standard tuning 'yuck' because it impresses a certain chord voicing, taking away compositional decisions from the musician?

As a musician this seems like the single greatest instrument ever made

Then you got to explain to me how you define "instrument"? Because what you're describing is kind of the equivalent to comparing a cake to an "ingredient".

Care to elaborate?

Music is a such a human thing, that getting an AI to create it, really kind of bastardises it.

I thought you meant "yuck" because the songs are all pretty generic and low-quality (very cool for AI though)

but this... I mean I dunno

I like some midjourney art more than a lot of "real" art

Ja, the tracks are quite average - but like I just commented in the thread above - maybe one day using art from AI would be like shopping from Amazon (instead of the local store down the road). Crazy times to say the least - impressive tech though.

It's just another tool - synths are computer generated as well, so what does it matter whether a computer or human decides to push the button?

At the end of the day it's humans that will use the tool and combine it how they see fit and it's humans that will decide whether it's any good or not ...

I totally agree with you actually - but the tooling here is for producing content, not for composing music (like your synth example). It's exactly the same as MidJourney - the target user is not the artist, but the regular user. I wouldn't be surprised in a couple of years we have terms similar to "buy local", but for content generated by AI - like "buy human".

That's just like...your opinion.

If aliens come down tomorrow with "superior" music, I guess it is humans who will be bastardising it. Stop gatekeeping :)

This is a perfectly valid opinion

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