A provoking thought i keep having.
Since “ai” (id rather call it just an aggregator/scraper but yeah) is just taking input from everything humans have done on the internet and spitting out an amalgamation, how exactly can we say its any different from an average musician who has influences from hundreds if not thousands of bands?
There’s many, many, songs out there that you can tell are inspired by others. How can you differentiate this from prompting the slop generator to “make a song similar to x artist and throw in some drum parts similar to y artist”. I myself definitely know the music I write has a sound to it that can be traced to a lot of groups I listen to, even if I just sit down and start writing I will naturally sometimes come up with something that sounds similar to music id been really into that week, for example. Of course I notice this and then work to change it up if possible, and many times others dont even hear the same influence I did in the end!
The only difference i can think of is, if you took a human baby, put them on an island with no music and a caretaker, and gave them a piano, they would create something. Of course a computer could never do this.
Peaceful discussion if we can. 🙂
Yeah, it is sad. Ive always enjoyed older movies my whole life, but even more so now because I can look at them and go, wow, they did that for real! Same reason I still listen to a lot of 70s/80s rock. It was for the most part, real (even though a lot of the time it was corporate, you still had acts like Kansas and Rush that wrote amazing music, recorded to tape, and worked their asses off playing 250 shows a year)
I think going forward, we wont have talent like that anymore. Unless maybe the kids rebel against slop and we have a revolution of human music and art (id be fine getting rid of quantizing and melodyne myself, never liked it).
Heck, the band im in is in a very small minority that does not use backing tracks and we use real amps. Its all real and performed. People ask us what we use for backing tracks, is the guitarist using looping pedals too? Nope. Its all us and how we wrote the music to sound good live.
But then we have the other kids, the ones who will pump out slop songs and call themselves an artist. And the worst part, people will probably like the slop songs more than the human created ones. If we can even tell a difference in 5 years.