It's Time to Rage Against the AI Music Machine
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I don't want it to be because I believe music means much more than what a computer can generate on its own. I appreciate that over my time music has been more and more computer aided, where we're moving away from new bands having incredible drummers, guitarists and vocalists.
Music is popular because it has meaning, its words have been shaped by the bands and their vocalists based on real thoughts and creativity. AI music takes it to an extreme commodity, more so than it is today.
For example, its trending on social media "Killing in the name of" by Rage against the machine for its lyrics against Government overstep and policy brutality. Those lyrics meant something during that time, would it feel the same if a computer made those lyrics?
Or is it a case where new generations will grow up with AI making its own music that it becomes the new norm with a lack of appreciation to creating music yourself
So yes, if people can grow to prefer an AI mate, they can definitely grow to prefer AI music. Especially where it sings lyrics you generated to match whatever you were thinking at the time, in the style you were hoping to listen to at the time.
Dismal? I'm a musician, and also a grey-beard. This matches the industry progression (or digression, I suppose) exactly, so far as I've seen it going.
Pick a side: Synth didn't kill guitar. Video did kill the radio star.
PS: The fact that they refer to AI music compilations as an "Act" blows my mind in ways I don't think I'll ever be able to embrace. But, here we are. Some bands get flack for lip syncing. Kiss, ABBA and others are getting away with projected avatars. And then we have AI.
That's what humans do. No one complains that another musician has listened to someone else's music. Or even that they are influenced by it. It's how things happen.
The problem is that AI has nothing to add. Somehow that needs to be brought into a cogent argument.