This video is a very long, informed, and interesting view on #AI, mostly with respect to #AImusic by #Suno.

Having watched most of it makes me wonder:

Why do I care at all?

I mean… neither my upright piano, my electric bass guitar, nor my synthesizers and open source production tools will go away because gazillions of dudes out there are generating AI music.

Why don't I just ignore this, like I ignore pizza with capers, or like I don't engage in BDSM sex, or like I don't go to the gym to convert myself into a flesh mountain? (If you like capers, go ahead having some, I don't mind!)

This is a serious question. There's more things in this world that do not bother me than that do bother me, … so why does AI #music bother me as a musician, event tech professional, and human?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8dcFhF0Dlk

@andijah

I think this is a very valid point, but thinking about it, it's not what bothers me most. I know I can make music that AI likely will never be able to make.

Perhaps it's more related with getting attention. There's likely musicians who don't seek attention too much. But I guess most musicians want to be heard. Why do so many musicians upload their works to Spotify, well knowing that they never will make money there. It's their hope of getting attention.

Getting attention, also on the small scale, always has been difficult. Many musicians don't enjoy booking gigs, because it's hard and consists primarily of rejection.

On the listener side, it's even harder to cut through the masses, and today's online world has in effect trashed the noughties' promise that the Internet will make things possible for all of us.

And then comes this AI prompter dude and all his co-dudes are like: Oh your song is so great, I love it.

So, basically yes, it's a different twist of what you wrote already.

@nielso for me, it's less about finding an audience (of course this does play a part, but it's not as prominent as one might think), it's more about being on an artistic journey and growing while I'm on my way. If song-writing suddently becomes available by one click (I know there's prompting and all that), then the journey itself is lost. And thus a very human experience isn't lived through. This is what I would miss terribly and this is why I work differently.

@andijah
For me it’s similar. I never expected to reach a mass audience, but of course I hope my music reaches •someone• and that it communicates something. It’s not about me “getting attention” personally, but it is about a different kind of attention. As others have said, “why would I take the time to read something that no one took the time to write?” Whether it’s writing or music or any art, I don’t need “content”— I want to hear someone’s voice.
@nielso