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Re:AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the... by TheCapeGreek on Thursday April 11, 2024 @06:09AM (#40000471)
Agreed.

Another side of it is that it will enable the creation of more music around more topics than before, by non-musicians. The accessibility bar is lower.

For a lot of people, music is a way to express their emotions, and not just by creating/playing it, but by listening to it. Now, you'll be make your own hyper-specific music with lyrics around topics specific to you, without learning any of the underlying skills yourself.

I've certainly wanted some kinds of music/representation in music of some of my experiences to exist, but not enough to go out and learn to make it myself. Now/soon I should be able to do that with AI tools, and I think that's actually neat!

Re:AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the... by tumult on Thursday April 11, 2024 @07:12AM (#40000900)
It will let you express yourself in precisely the same amount as giving those instructions to a person to create a song for you. Very little.
Re:AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the... by oblio on Thursday April 11, 2024 @08:22AM (#40001357)
Memes, memes everywhere! :-)

> as giving those instructions to a person to create a song for you

Most people don't have access to such a person.

Re:AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the... by tumult on Thursday April 11, 2024 @08:46AM (#40001509)
I know. I was saying it’s not expressive. I didn’t say that everyone has people to make music for them.
Re:AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the... by oblio on Thursday April 11, 2024 @08:51AM (#40001549)
My point is that just like with meme generators, many people are able to express themselves through "rudimentary" artistic means.

A tool like this will open up a lot of possibilities.

No, they won't turn into the next Hans Zimmer.

Re:AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the... by tumult on Thursday April 11, 2024 @09:00AM (#40001623)
My comment was a reply to someone talking about being expressive with AI music generators like these. The points you are making have nothing to do with what me or the person I was replying to said.
Re:AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the... by oblio on Thursday April 11, 2024 @03:43PM (#40006027)
They are connected but you aren't seeing it. The average person can't create baroque music based on a bunch of words they like. That's a lot of musical expressivity for someone who doesn't even know guitar chords.