Will people stop making music if AI becomes superior in music making?

Not my point, and not on topic… Not even in the least.

I said nothing of the sort.

Cheers!

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I came back here precisely to link that video from Lily Alexandre! I really like how clearly she lays out her line of thinking, she always gives me a lot to think about.

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Seriously, these topics are tailor made for the hottest of Twitter discourse takes.

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This topic only accomplishes one thing: a competition of who makes the “smartest” response to the subject. The cats that hang out in the yard and are always hissing at each other are not around today because it’s raining, so this thread is an alternative.

those were fantastic

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I like this take.

I’m here for the godlike banana movie. I heard the sequel was better.

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I mean ultimately this particular discourse is solely about commerce, not art.

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Bit late for the discussion, but I see it this way.

AI image generation is a tool for me to get unique and cool designs. I am not a graphic designer, I barely know the tools. However it gives me the possibility to easily access cool images for all sorts of things that I use in my projects.

I am not claiming to be an in artist, nor do I try to become famous with the images.

Now, vice versa, someone in need for a musical piece who is not musician may do the same thing.

A video editor or content creator needs something unique and can use AI as a convinient and budget friendly way to get music.

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Nope.

(to answer the original question)

I can elaborate.

But the long answer is Nope.

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I was gonna say nope too, but I settled on

what do you mean “better”? also nope.

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No. There are plenty of people making “better” music than me. But it’s still fun.

Could AI ever pull off writing something like Five Ten Fifty Folds with help from the gods, the way the Cocteau Twins did? :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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AI has your termination dates scheduled and AI is never off schedule.

No chance!!

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yes because we’ll be dead

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Don’t be so dramatic, they will need a few hundred thousand human slaves around to toil in the fields alongside the farming bots. And these sub-human slaves will sing in the fields keeping music alive!!!

Then the robots will genetically engineer us to be born without mouths.

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From laughter at how they walk like they sharted?

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The AI overlords will play beautifully articulated, mathematically precise overtures as they very slowly, clumsily stumble along 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, year after year after year. Never eating, never sleeping, never resting, never stopping.

Always closing in on the last survivors hiding in their mud holes, cold, hungry, thirsty, tired, hopeless, scared, feeble, weak.

10 years ago there were no AI realtime thinky shiny robots to put your dishes away or play you generic dance music. 10 years from now I’m sure the speed of these mechanical wonders will not progress as the technology matures.

I wonder what new musical scales AI will sing to me as I take my last gasp of life…

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The real headline here is that the voice of our future AI Overlords is ROB LOWE.

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It’s clear though that it will be extremely hard to make a living out of it. It’s already extremely difficult.
At least 95% will loose their income when AI is capable of generating anything within a couple seconds. That plus I also mentioned the production of instruments and other equipment will go down rapidly. In short: If you wanna make money in music wake up and stop dreaming cause it’s probably not gonna happen anymore.

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