Just out of curiosity, what would beating them to the punch potentially look like, in your opinion?
using it WITH musicians, integrating it. just like drummers did with a drum machine. i don't know how yet as everything is new and forming.
drum machines could have replaced drummers completely. for some small gigs, they can't ever have real drums in the room, but people do "replace" drummers with the drum machine when necessary. but drummers are still around because they have a different function, and drummers have also integrated drum machines/sequencers, midi, etc. into their performances showing we still need drummers and both can coexist.
Yeah, of course it will with that attitude Chris. Do you think it's a good thing, in a music context?
no it's not a good thing. but how would all the musicians in the world stop someone making a website with AI music generation on it?
film photographers hated digital cameras because everyone could take pictures more easily, but photographers still have jobs because of their skill.
drum machines (yes again i know) threatened drummers being needed, but drummers till have jobs because of their skill.
artists hated digital art because anyone could do it without buying all the paint and supplies, but artists still have jobs because of their skill.
libraries have become a thing of the past due to search engines and wikis.
this is just another technology leap and it's gonna happen as progress marches on. fight all you want, ignore it, and all that. but one day in the future every session might start by asking every player to create an AI scratch track and then the real musicians need to incorporate it. if you don't know how, you could be left in the dust.
of course we can all do what we need to. painters can use paint, film photographers can still use film, and musicians can still make music the old fashioned way too. but if the professional music industry shifts to
always incorporating AI and that's a requirement to get paid, well, that's what it is.
i think we're years away from that as this stuff all develops.
i don't like it at all. AI these days isn't GENERATING anything it's COPYING previous human creation, and stitching it all together. it's STEALING hands down. some AI is given prompts and info from a single creator and it branches from that, but the latest big AI pushes all are "trained" on work that is copyrighted, but shown on the internet or in search databases and brings those elements together for a new piece of work.
i'm in some art circles, and an artist found an AI generated artwork that had like 70% of her main ideas, colors, and more in some random image list she was browsing through. it was NO DOUBT her art when she showed them side by side.
i am not on board with AI at all. but bigger powers are shoving it down our throats. it's already in movies replacing art from artists. it's already replacing voice actors. it's soon going to COPY a small group of extras for movies, and those extras will be in every movie from then on so they don't have to audition and hire people anymore.
it's up to us in each industry to defend our importance. the money people will want to work with AI, but hey i know this musician who uses AI and is really good with it so you can actually hire him to get a better result. etc etc.
again not all of us will have to use it in our day to day. but the big professional work just might require it at some point in the future and eventually that trickles down into the smaller parts of the industry. it sucks. it's here. we can yell at the internet or incorporate it if we need to and not get left behind.
