This article has been imported from chorus.fm for discussion. All of the forum rules still apply. Jack Antonoff has shared some thoughts on AI music: You don’t have to write music, you don’t have to record it and you don’t have to bring out the band and play it. And yet for us, the idea of optimizing what we do is a complete miss of the entire point of what compels us in the first place. We (myself, the band and everyone I know, frankly) have never been looking for this work to become quicker or easier. We were never frustrated by the randomness and magic it takes. We do it for that exact reason – and without the process itself ::: nothingness. more Not all embedded content is displayed here. You can view the original to see embedded videos and other embedded content.
this is a spot on assessment of how AI music should be thought about. Art is a never-ending journey and any actual artist can tell you the soul-affirming joy that comes from the spark, the process, the moments of flow that can lead to everything coming together or everything falling apart. fuck AI "music", all my homies hate AI music.
Yes. This applies to all artistic mediums. I'm a graphic designer and I can't count the number of times I've been creating a piece that goes a completely different direction (in a great way) than what I previously intended. I love the process and never quite knowing where inspiration will take me. The ability to surprise one's self is one of the chief pleasures of artistic creation. It's reason enough to create in the first place.
VERY amateur musician here. I feel like AI can maybe have a place in educating certain basic starting points (e.g. Give me a basic vocal chain with only default GarageBand plug-ins). Also, is there not already “AI” in certain plug-ins? Like can’t I have an DAW automatically mess up some midi tracks so they feel less robotic? Is there ways to have AI just exist on the client side for better tools when it comes to very specific purposes? Like I said, I know very little am just trying to understand and learn!
welcome to the club! - Presets already exist in Garageband and Logic, you don't need to ask ChatGPT to spit some out for you. - You'd be a hundred times better off just searching the internet for that question yourself, finding resources such as (actually reputable) Youtube videos, reading forum threads, or talking to other humans, even if you don't understand all of the terms or process right away. Learning is fun. - There is a world of difference between using plug-ins and other tools for specific purposes to create or enhance an idea, vs the inherent theft and soulless nature of throwing a prompt into Suno that says "give me a summer 2005 pop punk anthem"
Thanks for the reply. I agree with the above. I think my meant my point as a broader topic/question about AI in general: is there a way to utilize this pretty big jump in technology in art without ruining the integrity (and quality lol) of art, creating the commodification of art and devaluing the value of artists, and exploiting natural resources? Is this current AI boom dependent on unsustainably large servers, or can we shrink it down to a client side improvement of tools that already readily used and accepted?
I tried Suno and it’s creating all sorts of cognitive dissonance in my mind. Meanwhile, I still want to grab my guitar when I’m just hanging out.
This blew my mind when I read it this weekend. Apparently "bands" are out there asking AI to write songs for them, and then re-recording them themselves so as to avoid detection software, et al.
absolutely abhorrent behavior, would ostracize the shit out of anyone in my circle admitting to playing an AI-written tune. As much as I hate the idea of gatekeeping artistry, yeah, that's where the gate is.