Commercial music isn't the only way to make music, but it pays people that want to professionally work as musicians.

I don't disagree that these things exist, but I do believe that these are mostly propped up by dynamics that will soon no longer exist.

If that is your way of saying that AI will remove the possibility for humans to create music full time due to there being no money anymore in music then sure.

> I don't disagree that these things exist, but I do believe that these are mostly propped up by dynamics that will soon no longer exist.

Which are?

I can see a similar thing playing out with music. There will still be some token demand, but people will not pay the same when they can have a magic, infinitely producing on-demand, tailored-to-their-taste music machine, at vanishingly small marginal costs.

Good for consumers is highly debatable since we'd lose one more social connection in life. Something we are running a very high debt tab for already.

We would also lose musical knowledge since all the full-time musicians would have to stop playing. Only amateur musicians would remain.

And the "desired lifestyle" / "desired status" would be transferred to the already very, very rich and powerful AI company CEOs. Such an improvement ...

- Not all musicians are in the field because it pays, some of them haven't earned a cent

- There are talented people who would like to create music but are forced to work long hours, which leaves them drained. Perhaps in the future, humans won't have to work that much, which will allow them to pursue creative hobbies such as music making

- Artists will be able to continue performing live, which will act as a huge filter for the AI-generated content and keep paying them.

Aside from that I agree, though musicians just one of many groups disrupted by AI and I wouldn't say they'll be the ones hurt most by it, mostly because they can continue to "exist" outside of the Internet, and experiencing music live could become more popular because of it. A lot of assumptions here, I know

I think that this is the fairytale part that I have trouble accepting.

Coming from a country that has a very limited social welfare system I don't believe that the political or social climate is adapted to take such steps in a future where a lot of things are automated.

It goes against everything that we've seen in the last 150 years.

> Artists will be able to continue performing live, which will act as a huge filter for the AI-generated content and keep paying them.

Or AI "musicians" will play live events as holograms.

> Aside from that I agree, though musicians just one of many groups disrupted by AI and I wouldn't say they'll be the ones hurt most by it, mostly because they can continue to "exist" outside of the Internet, and experiencing music live could become more popular behind it.

Sure, they might not be the most affected by AI, but they would still be affected which is the reason I'm not a fan of AI in music. This pushback doesn't need to be reserved to the most impacted activities.

agriculture is made by tractors now. should we ban them and return to the plow?

Music is art and musicians don't lack in efficiency.

For AI music it would be the same. You could find it online on some shifty third-party websites or use some illegal model on your own hardware but in the end it will always represent a minority use case.

A lot of people complaining are doing it just for the sake of complaining, because anti-AI virtue signaling nets them clout, meanwhile they will happily scroll entire timelines of edited photos, movies which are nothing else than fake reality "slop".

People generally have nuanced opinions not represented solely by whatever Tweets are popular, and this is true of basically every single topic.

There is a difference between an AI critic who dislikes the AI output based on their sense of taste/aesthetic/soullessness and someone who likes something until they learn that there's 0.0001% of AI content in it, which suddenly turns it into abomination. I agree that the latter tends to be the louder group, but it is a group nonetheless and I clearly did not invent jumping on a bandwagon.

So we should start awarding Michelin stars to McDonald's?

Nobody is impeding that.