I do music production. I’ve seen what AI can do, and for making a simple master of one of my demos AI is great. But everyone who has been there knows that the fun of making music comes from uniqueness. AI can’t do that, it can only riff on things known in its dataset.
I’m not worried at all, because this means the boring commercial music becomes less impressive, and unique and elaborate music becomes even more valuable. I’m cool with that; nothing of value is lost.
I get why people are freaked out, but most of the tangible issues come from greedy managers with a pinch of dunning-kruger, trying to replace workers. And that’s got almost nothing to do with AI and everything to do with assholes. There will be consequences, but people have to stick out this short-term chaos. And that’s the only thing I have empathy for in this.
Well that and unlicensed training because governments can’t get their shit together to enforce ethical guidelines for AI training & data collection practices.
I think AI is also a great tool to get people into hobbies they will want to do themselves.
A lot of things - including music production - can seem daunting for a beginner, and for all the resources available, none can replace a teacher who sits next to you and guides you through the basics.
And fortunately I’m seeing more and more people using AI not in place of a professional but to become one, utilising the LLM to create personalised teacher agents. And LLMs are arguably much better at “teach me to do this” rather than “go and do this”.
I wish your opinion was shared more.
I do music production. I’ve seen what AI can do, and for making a simple master of one of my demos AI is great. But everyone who has been there knows that the fun of making music comes from uniqueness. AI can’t do that, it can only riff on things known in its dataset.
I’m not worried at all, because this means the boring commercial music becomes less impressive, and unique and elaborate music becomes even more valuable. I’m cool with that; nothing of value is lost.
I get why people are freaked out, but most of the tangible issues come from greedy managers with a pinch of dunning-kruger, trying to replace workers. And that’s got almost nothing to do with AI and everything to do with assholes. There will be consequences, but people have to stick out this short-term chaos. And that’s the only thing I have empathy for in this.
Well that and unlicensed training because governments can’t get their shit together to enforce ethical guidelines for AI training & data collection practices.
I think AI is also a great tool to get people into hobbies they will want to do themselves.
A lot of things - including music production - can seem daunting for a beginner, and for all the resources available, none can replace a teacher who sits next to you and guides you through the basics.
And fortunately I’m seeing more and more people using AI not in place of a professional but to become one, utilising the LLM to create personalised teacher agents. And LLMs are arguably much better at “teach me to do this” rather than “go and do this”.