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Sorry John but that sounds horrible to me, I’ll keep the red jacket on hold for now okay?

... just when you thought popular music couldn't get any worse.... sit back and let the geeks show you how bad the shlock can get.

limitless!!!

Yeah it sounds bad right now.. But in 5 years this will be so good that they'll use it everywhere. Every movie will be AI generated and have a single person act and voice every character and just have someone digital create all the characters, etc.

And then albums will be AI generated with the same kind of stuff.

Haha... "this is my voice" literally made me laugh out loud. I really want to make a parody of this.

However, that trumpet was pretty cool. I could have a lot of fun with that!

Where's the Tom Waits preset?

The metal dude (the first one) nearly had me do a spit take on my laptop. It is pretty impressive, but it's also so so bad. 

This inspired me to do some scatting into Studio One to convert to MIDI with Melodyne. Two takeaways.

1) This is really fun
2) I most certainly DO NOT have perfect pitch. This is a great way to emulate a synth player who accidentally put his wallet on the pitch wheel.

Well I think we're moving into the direction where artists will be sustained by benefactors and philanthropists. Which is actually how it used to be before music publishing so maybe it's kind of the natural state.

Also of note, a true AI revolution will almost certainly usher in some sort of UBI as others have mentioned. So maybe, counterintuitively, all this AI stuff will lead to a new era of human creativity where the next Tom Waits' don't have to worry about commercial viability or making a living... they spend their lives pushing the boundaries of music and poetry and art with no concern for making a buck.

Yes, I am an optimist in some ways.

The way I see it is the "creative" space is overcrowded and cluttered with junk anyway. If the code jockeys can figure out a way to replicate the junk that makes up 95% of today's "releases" all the better for the remaining 5% that are getting crowded out by the weeds.

This, of course, is under the assumption that I myself am among the 5%. But you know what? If I'm not? Great, I can stop wasting my time and find something else!

I'm more of a pessimist. 😄

I do hear what you're saying though. I'm in support of the notion that art is, in a perfect world, created without any notion of making money at all, but, realistically, I wonder how many artists can or will choose to still do so in the brave new world of AI and basically zero income from creating music.

Yeah. We're fucked. Here's the deal - there's always going to be human creation...but the large majority of places we are making money is probably about to get replaced by AI. I wouldn't doubt sync is over in 5 years. It's just the bottom line. Why pay through the nose when you can get it free? I guarantee you the PROs are going to get decimated by every restaurant that feels like ASCAP/BMI/SESAC has been raping them for decades. No way chains, malls, offices, etc aren't going to STOP playing music they have to pay for and start playing royalty free AI music.

I hate to be pessimistic, but we've hit a point where it's downhill from here. It's not that people won't create music, there just won't be a sustainable economy around it - unless people rebel. But the next time consumers fight for the right to pay for shit will be the first time. I'm sure we will figure things out...I'm sure people were screaming about the cotton gin or whatever back in the day...and we survived. That being said, it's only been a relatively short amount of time that making music could support you as a profession.

I wonder if this will make people kneejerkingly start to disregard anything that's "too good" as being AI? Like, hey that's a really great voice, and that progression is pretty tidy...must be AI!

No I swear, I wrote it myself!

If all the ecosytem collapses but you still want to produce music on your own term, then now more than ever, you should buy real gear online.
I sure know what I'm buying next.

This is the sense I get from watching the other "kids". My middle school aged kids are part of a tape swap group at school. They literally swap cassette tapes and mix tapes. That's just one example. As automation and AI gets better and better, the natural rebound is to see more value in things that can't possibly be automated.

Human experience.

So the smart ones here and elsewhere should be rethinking their business strategy to emphasize the types of things that AI saturated generations will crave in the future. Real experiences. Things that exist.