A lot of people are very confident about this and I dont understand why. The same was said for jazz and comic books. But I am listening to jazz with comic book posters on my wall. There were different reasons to give the same statement, but it almost always turns out to be wrong. Humans like what they like and seldom judge an artwork for its process (outside of a very small niche community).
>Humans like what they like and seldom judge an artwork for its process (outside of a very small niche community).
That's true, but how do you zoom out of process? This is beyond process. I would just say most people don't like inhuman things.
Can you elaborate on this a bit? Because this is what I don't get.
It's an omellete. There is no Dolly Parton behind an AI Jolene or a Michael Jackson turning a 4 track tape into a musical masterpiece. The journey and personalities are what contextualize the sound, without AI that context is gone. That's why I think it will just be used for cafes and things like that where they want to escape licensing fees.
As for consumers - I believe people will see AI music consumption as a way of supporting the new technological powers that be, and the act of listening to human-made music will have an element of counter-culture baked into it. I'm a professional musician and I have a very physical reaction to sound. Once I know it's AI my goosebumps fade.
Another lame incarnation of a tech that will also fade like crypto and everything else. The types of personalities who will leverage this tech are not the same personalities that make the greats.
I'm not worried.
And anyway, is it measurably different from art produced while tripping on LSD or in similar states of altered consciousness, such as schizophrenia, dementia, or even depression, which often produce things many people would not describe as regular?
I see no reason that someone wouldn't hang an AI poster print in their AirBnB that's abstract, or even a "commission" based on the property and its locale.
Same reason for AI music. Your store needs a bit of music to set a vibe, but with AI it can be free of copyright and performance licensing, and again, be tailored to your location, products, clientele, the day of the week, etc.
Even if the AI music is extremely good, it's just missing the fact that it was made by a person, which changes the experience entirely. I think we're more likely to see musicians and those top10 artists leverage AI without explicitly saying so.
I expect we will have a daft punk moment where someone is using exclusively AI and later unmasks that it was all AI, and as soon as that happens the music is disconnected.
Same with AI art. I can see something and be duped and go "oh wow!!!" and as soon as I know it's AI the caring leaves my body completely and reverence and interest is lost.
It's better than AI, even this incredible mindblowing suno thing. Production value counts.
There’s certainly a point where this synthetic music gets good enough to replace the elevator music Muzak crap that they have to pay $2000 to license.
I need to stem it, fix it up a bit, and remix for stereo in a DAW but it's much better than I expected for my first ever piece of music. Obviously it'd take a lot of work to create a Hans Zimmer level OST from the tool but IMO it wouldn't feel out of place on a Ludovico Einaudi album or on some Spotify or Pandora classical radio.
I don't think musicians and composers are going to disappear as a consequence of this technology, in the same way that theatre actors were not made obsolete by film. What I do think is that a whole new category of professionals will be created - musicians and composers who get paid to train AI models. I bet it will pay better then the laughable amounts that are streaming royalties.
The future is obviously a form of custom AI Muzak/Ambient music with a few pop stars for people to focus on.
I am a big fan of more art type music and guess what? No one listens to it. My fav album of 2023 has 6.4k views on youtube. At least a 100 of those are mine. No one listens to this stuff. People watch video critic reviews of more art type music than the actual music itself.
https://app.suno.ai/song/2a5a9327-5b27-4353-b62b-8eb3e314fff...
I normally do noisey acoustic stream on consious stuff but I've been too busy for the past two years to get anything out.
This was the first track in a while I've been happy with the lyrics are very real to me and it took a couple hours to learn the workflow and I still haven't went back and fixed edited the ending as well as adding overdubs throughout as well as a real guitar solo.
I can post my youtube for more context but I didn't feel right posting it without someone requesting.
I'm just very interested in new ways to get my art out. And this is more of a transformer of my poetry into real listenable music.
I'm very excited.
Pretty soon we'll be reviving the old Palmolive "You're soaking in it" commercial (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bEkq7JCbik).
We'll all be soaking in it, and no, you won't be able to tell the difference.
Counter-point, we've been listening to a rock song about the moon given the words from one of my kids books all morning.
People will 100% listen to (edit - I never finished the sentence) things that sound fun. It might not bring me to tears or stop me in my tracks but lots of things are just fun.
> People aren't going to hang AI paintings in their houses
People will absolutely do this. If AI systems can make nice pictures people will hang them in their houses. And they can make nice pictures.
Free accounts are queued so it depends on load and I don't think the v3 model is available to them.