I had no idea Allen Iverson was making music again!
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It will only improve certain aspects and reduce critical thinking in others. I believe in technology to a certain extent, I have loved it since I was a kid, using AI to augment human work, not replace it.
The people telling you this also want all of our jobs to be worse, not easier or more productive for anyone but the sort of hollowed out brand-shell companies would love to lose all their staff and sell nostalgia and regurgitated “content” direct to consumer.
NOT HYPERPOP! 
i mean the fad is entirely synthetic, for the specific purpose of bumping whatever stock bump after blockchain and NFTs shit all over the bed
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If there is demand, there will he continuity. Think digital audio vs vinyl. There will be a use case for pristine audio but also those made by humans. The question I have is how humans will misrepresent to meet their goals.
The purpose of culture wars is to consume the public with differences between “left” and “right”, in order that they not think about the differences between “top” and “bottom”. Most disagreements over A.I. fit this pattern. We argue about whether or not A.I. is inherently a good thing, neglecting to acknowledge how the greedy wishes of tech BaROnS will most significantly determine A.I.'s future.
Q: Whom does the grail serve?
A: The grail king.
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I enjoy playing music more than I enjoy listening to it. I’ll never stop.
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Did people stop riding horses when cars became a more efficient mode of transportation?
Today, tens of millions dream about having a horse to ride, usually when they’re young, and play games and go online pretending they have one.
Many of them pay a fee to a person wealthier than their parents to ride for a few hours a week.
A few million people own a horse and ride for leisure, to rent to others and to show off
(usually they drive one of their cars to get to their horse and hook up a trailer to move their horse from A to B)
A few thousand can make a living instructing others how to ride, but many more volunteer to do so and consider it a hobby
A few dozen ride so well they travel the world to perform their skills and get paid handsomely
(usually their horse is owned by someone else who is much wealthier still)
And millions of non-horse-owning car drivers watch the best riders perform on screens.
Meanwhile the companies taking their bets make the most money of all the entities in the horse ecosystem.
I think there’s a lot to be said about not giving a sh!t
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AI will kill us all long before we ever have to worry about this. Sleep well.
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AI will never be as reflective and contempletive as human being …it can never tell the struggles and experiences in musical form , eg. 70s-90s Bristol, Detroit, Berlin, Kingston, as human did…it might mimic etc…
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The 500,000,000 humans we will allow to live to service us will all be chemically raised without the senses of smell, hearing, or taste.
These non-essential sensory experiences are counterproductive to the worker humans mission.
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First comment, pretty much end thread
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AI Capone
Hopefully there would be an eventual rebellion, to make music that’s as far away as from what AI ends up generating, people going fully away from anything and everything computer generated…something like that. It makes me think of how punk emerged. But judging from the musical taste of the current younger generations I highly doubt that would happen.
Either way humans will always make music, those who really do it know it’s like a compulsion.
It can be like a sickness at times, there was a time in my life where some personal stuff happened between me and someone I was close with who was also in the same kind of sphere (of making music and DJing etc) and at that point making music became really toxic and negative for me since it was at the heart of what happened between us. I sold all my gear and planned to quit that lasted maybe six months then I was back at it again, I literally couldn’t help it even if it was bringing me back to a negative space, that form of expression and exorcising of natural talents is necessary for me to be mentally healthy and feeling complete so even if the entire industry implodes (hasn’t it already) I’ll still be doing my thing, I literally can’t help it.
No. Of course not. There’s already plenty of other human beings making better music than me and I still want to make music. Ai can fuck off.
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AI is just a tool. And can be used with talent, subtlety and inspiration, or not.
See what experiment at IRCAM leads to : real musicians playing live with an Ai that plays in reaction to what the human is making. This is bold, and smart and interesting, and defines a new way to perform in relationship with new technology.
On the other side there is and will be tons of mediocre music Ai generated for the mass consumerism, same as it ever was.
I personally think that we will soon reach a point where music (and films) will be generated live and in streaming, depending of the audience preferences or prompts ( like " OK tonight I wanna hear jazz blended with electronic music, and rap lyrics about food" or " I want to watch a 45 minute film with talking monkeys, that goes to space and meet a godlike banana… and I want zombies in there too. And a coffee machine. "
But it is not in any way a dead end for music or film making just a continuation, ad there is always going to be a audience for both sides of creation.
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In the near future AI will define what is good and what is bad.But what AI says is good will be crap……
here’s some general thoughts around ai and humanity/art and some nuts and bolts science.
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Dinky keyboards have been doing play-along for what, 30 years or so? 
None of the useful stuff is new in tooling, none of the new stuff is useful or a tool.