For the First Time, I'm SCARED of A.I. as a Music Producer

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George Orwell predicted this in 1949 in his novel nineteen eighty four. "While he is waiting for Julia, he recognises a song that a prole woman below the window is singing, which is a popular song written by the versificator, which is a machine that writes songs with no human input." Yikes!

Digital content has been comoditized. The best path forward for artists is to create experiential performances thay people can enjoy live, outside of the digital world. That's the new frontier for musicians, back to the beginning, where the listener and the artist are sitting in the same room sharing a human experience.

Ai is going to disrupt every industry. Nobody is prepared for how fast it is all going to happen. What is important is how we as a society take care of each other and how wealth is distributed.

Good thing I make music for me. I only release things so I can say I'm done with it.

"I studied music for about 12 years, and I was sure that the day would come when people would hear me, and somehow I would be able to monetize my hard work. Then, we got this. I cry."

I hope that there will be a movement that embraces human-made music with all it's imperfections. AI may make generic music in the future and do it well, but human's will make something that means something more to them and through expressing their feelings, I believe humans make deeper music, that's more thought out and felt. Maybe I'm just hopeful, but making music is fun, making music is like a therapy, telling a story and I hope people will still appreciate human-made music forever and if they do not, it will still be my hobby, because it's fun and makes me feel better.

The purpose of music is connecting with each other. Before we had electronic devices music was so rare. We had to go outside to listen to music in live environments and meet other people to make the music together. I think in future live music will become more important than ever

I'm genuinely shocked there are no class action lawsuits stemming from the use of AI being fed copywritten work to produce their tools. I feel like it wouldn't be too hard to prove in court, especially when you can feed the AI lines like "in the style of ____" and it actually sounds/looks like the artists' work. The basis for proof in copywrite claims in court aren't stringent and it would severely hamper AI companies. If a record label decided to take its own IP and make an AI then that would be 100% legal, but at that point they've paid the artist. They can do whatever they want with it.

The day that music died... It used to be known as Feb. 3, 1959, when Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson were killed in a plane crash. But now we can see that it actually happened on March 21, 2024, with the stable release of Suno v3.

I found it beautiful to see you laughing and having fun while listening to the songs :). This having said, I think that the instant gratification everyone gets for "creating" something by "themselves" with just a few clicks is the real thread.

As a DJ I really notice when a producer has put his hearth and soul in a track and is not afraid of trying new things. Unlike manny producers who just do the same trick over and over (like an ai) and never leave their comfort zone, these are the tracks that really set the the tone of the set and will be remembered and requested by the audience in the years to come. I see ai as just a tool, just like when digital dj’ing took over vinyl. Dj’s didn’t got replaced by automated playlists, event in electronic music people stil want to experience the human aspect. In the end the human equation behind the music, should not be underestimated in my opinion!

You hit the key point, which a lot seem to miss - that being; this is improving so rapidly. In a couple of years (Much shorter probably) not only will the imperfections be sorted, but the quality will be far beyond what a human can do. This applies to EVERYTHING. We need to be asking ourselves some serious questions...

Performance will be all that's left in the future.

How to stay calm and adapt to it? It will kill licensing first, music for ads, corporate uses, film and tv. As for real songs, people tend to go to artists, real people. I don’t see people being enthusiastic for an AI song. As for electronic music in clubs, most people dance on music they don’t know, so it could be dangerous if it’s cheaper for a club to produce an AI playlist than paying regular fees. So many questions. But yes, I was shocked by seeing this…

This is just the start too. It will develop and get better and better.

Had a play with yesterday. It's a bit of nightmare to get it to consistently make an actual song over 1.30 that works but I definitely see it getting there when it starts spitting out stems then we are in trouble.

I was gonna say NOT to fear Alice, you have a loyal fanbase who will continue to follow and support you. But then, I am 53. The days of buying vinyl, even CDs, is but a distant memory. With steaming, torrents and file sharing, do the younger generations EVER buy music any more. My youngest, a 16-year-old lad, has adopted my passion for vinyl and spends all we allow him to on it. On further reflection, I guess my generation was just as bad, taping the radio, borrowing CDs to burn a copy, etc. Yeah, scary shizz for real.

So basically, if you're not already a known top producer/dj, at most it seems you can be a local producer/dj in the underground scene, and hope to make enough money from gigs to survive. Yay to the automatization of everything.

but we had many Al artists in the past: Weird Al Jankovic, Al Green, Al Jarreau...