I hate that AI is controlled by a few huge corporations and that it consumes ungodly amounts of resources. Otherwise I’d be completely fine with it. At least 90% of anything is shit anyway and everything humans create is built on what came before, so I think AI just mimics what we’ve been doing since forever. But as it is controlled by just a few assholes who burn the planet down even faster I am against it.
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Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks agotbf, a lot of pop and generic stuff is incredibly soulless and it was made by people. One silver lining is that hopefully the artistic part will be more embraced in music because the driving force for a lot of it is money and not art. Not defending AI in any way though, fuck that bullshit to hell.
red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Muaddib@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
People have free will and while most people don’t bother using it, a few in each generation think differently. Those are people like Einstein, Picasso, Hypatia, Curie, Yeshua, Tolkein, Wachowski, Ray. They bring genuinely new ideas into the space of human thought. If AI writes all the books, we don’t get any more Voltaires. If AI makes all the movies, we don’t get any more del Toros. If AI writes all the songs, we don’t get any more Hendrixes.
We get Hendrix copycats, sure. But nobody is going to change the game the way all the people I listed changed the game.
red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
That’s alarmist nonsense. There will always be people still doing all those things. AI, in general, is just another tool. There will always be someone who changes the status quo. Always.
Jax@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Yes but being a musician shouldn’t necessistate being a genre defining artist.
shawn1122@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
If you could make a time machine and ask all of those people who their inspirations are you will get a list of five to ten people from each. No one is 100% uninspired by other people. That’s just not how art works.
Muaddib@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Good thing I didn’t make that argument you’re criticising
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
That is never going to happen.
You can compare it to making clay pots.
We have mastered the art of making pots, we have entire factories that do nothing but make the most beautiful pots in all manner of shapes, sizes and colors. Millions of them each day. Nobody in the rest of human existence should ever need to make a clay pot by hand ever again.
Yet we still do.
Because art is something human. It makes us who we are. It is fun to express oneself. And no amount of automatization will ever take that away. We can be living in space and there will still be people making pots.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
“All” being the key word, and obviously wrong.
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
maybe it will force people to get more creative and experimental
etherphon@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
not if they want to earn any money, I just make music for myself now tbh
SaraTonin@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I once did a remix competition. Not to win, just to have fun playing with samples and the discipline of having a time limit. I knew going in that what I was going to do had 0 chance of getting anywhere near the top.
The winning three entries were judged by the website, the artist, and 3 executives from the record label. And the winning 3 entries were all exactly the same.
They were all the same style of EDM (bear in mind, this was a poppy guitar song being remixed, so there was no particular driving factor towards that direction), they had similar bass lines & synth parts - both in terms of the riffs themselves and in terms of the sounds used. They all sped up and pitched up the vocal and chopped it in a very similar way. And they all had the exact same structure. You could literally play all three simultaneously (after timestretching by a couple of BPM to make them the same tempo) and the intro would be the same number of bars, the beat would come in at the same time, the vocals would come in at the same time, the dropdown would come in at the same time, the build-up would come in at the same time and lasted the same number of bars, they had the same bar of silence after the build-up, and then the drop did very similar things with the bass and all three went into half-time simultaneously.
There were hundreds of entries, and really what you had to do was make something that sounded like everything else. It was depressing, honestly.
etherphon@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
Oof that’s super disheartening, I never really entered those contests because I feared it was the same. My music is pretty weird as it is I don’t really want to put it up against more ear friendly stuff lol. I feel like people are all watching the same youtube videos and getting the same tips or using the same tutorials and/or sample packs and projects or presets. DAWs are awesome in that they’ve made music making accessible to literally anyone but they’ve also made it easy to make a lot of music that sounds the same, I mean of course that was happening before computers as well, but it still take some effort to be a cover band.
Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I would like to hear more of that for real, stagnant ass music lately unless you just live in the underground
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
There’s a formula people like, so they just repeat stuff