For the First Time, I'm SCARED of A.I. as a Music Producer

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Digital content has been comoditized. The best path forward for artists is to create experiential performances thay people can enjoy live, outside of the digital world. That's the new frontier for musicians, back to the beginning, where the listener and the artist are sitting in the same room sharing a human experience.

We’ve been so desensitized with samples, auto tune, drum machines, grid snapping, etc that AI generated music doesn’t stray too far from what people are use to. Maybe this pushes music creation back into the wonderful world of imperfection.

George Orwell predicted this in 1949 in his novel nineteen eighty four. "While he is waiting for Julia, he recognises a song that a prole woman below the window is singing, which is a popular song written by the versificator, which is a machine that writes songs with no human input." Yikes!

Ai is going to disrupt every industry. Nobody is prepared for how fast it is all going to happen. What is important is how we as a society take care of each other and how wealth is distributed.

Good thing I make music for me. I only release things so I can say I'm done with it.

As a DJ I really notice when a producer has put his hearth and soul in a track and is not afraid of trying new things. Unlike manny producers who just do the same trick over and over (like an ai) and never leave their comfort zone, these are the tracks that really set the the tone of the set and will be remembered and requested by the audience in the years to come. I see ai as just a tool, just like when digital dj’ing took over vinyl. Dj’s didn’t got replaced by automated playlists, event in electronic music people stil want to experience the human aspect. In the end the human equation behind the music, should not be underestimated in my opinion!

First ChatGPT came for the copywriters, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a copywriter. Then MidJourney came for the graphic designers, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a graphic designer. Then Udio came for the musicians, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a musician. Then AI came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

The purpose of music is connecting with each other. Before we had electronic devices music was so rare. We had to go outside to listen to music in live environments and meet other people to make the music together. I think in future live music will become more important than ever

How depressing. Not only have producers been mugged off for years, especially since downloads were introduced. Now I’d say A.I is the final nail in the coffin for a lot of us.

I hope that there will be a movement that embraces human-made music with all it's imperfections. AI may make generic music in the future and do it well, but human's will make something that means something more to them and through expressing their feelings, I believe humans make deeper music, that's more thought out and felt. Maybe I'm just hopeful, but making music is fun, making music is like a therapy, telling a story and I hope people will still appreciate human-made music forever and if they do not, it will still be my hobby, because it's fun and makes me feel better.

The "AI is just a tool"-era is officially over

First as an professional sax player I didn't like it but it is so good it will wanish all shity pop and contemporary music and will disolve corporate connection to run in a big music industry

This is just the start too. It will develop and get better and better.

How to stay calm and adapt to it? It will kill licensing first, music for ads, corporate uses, film and tv. As for real songs, people tend to go to artists, real people. I don’t see people being enthusiastic for an AI song. As for electronic music in clubs, most people dance on music they don’t know, so it could be dangerous if it’s cheaper for a club to produce an AI playlist than paying regular fees. So many questions. But yes, I was shocked by seeing this…

You hit the key point, which a lot seem to miss - that being; this is improving so rapidly. In a couple of years (Much shorter probably) not only will the imperfections be sorted, but the quality will be far beyond what a human can do. This applies to EVERYTHING. We need to be asking ourselves some serious questions...

Hopefully the DAW's will soon integrate some new tools based on this kind of algo, and therefore all music producers and composers will have more space and time to explore many more aspects of what 'writing music' can be, and which AI can still not touch. Anyway thx for sharing this!

Performance will be all that's left in the future.

I tried to film a similart video 2 days ago but I had to stop mid shooting because I could feel like panic settling in. Not only this is terrifying but also f*cking unfair towards hard working musicians. I firmly believe it won't replace art, but making a living out of this will be... so much more difficult. As if it's not difficult enough already.

I'm genuinely shocked there are no class action lawsuits stemming from the use of AI being fed copywritten work to produce their tools. I feel like it wouldn't be too hard to prove in court, especially when you can feed the AI lines like "in the style of ____" and it actually sounds/looks like the artists' work. The basis for proof in copywrite claims in court aren't stringent and it would severely hamper AI companies. If a record label decided to take its own IP and make an AI then that would be 100% legal, but at that point they've paid the artist. They can do whatever they want with it.