Mikey Shulman, the CEO of AI music generator company Suno AI, argued that most people don’t enjoy the “majority of time” making music.
Mikey Shulman, the CEO of AI music generator company Suno AI, argued that most people don’t enjoy the “majority of time” making music.
Can ai determine the symbolism it wants in a song and then choose whether the direction of a scale is down or up or which harmonies are used to convey it?
Just like real visual artists who put real thought and specific meaningful things in their images being basically beyond what visual ai can do… As a composer beyond the ‘just makin a catchy tune for da moneyz’, I don’t have any fear of ai music. Music can convey the soul of it’s maker. what soul does an ai have? Can you hear it’s experiences in it’s music?
So the people who don’t learn instruments and instead enjoy ai music I personally don’t see anything wrong with. Sure, go ahead! I do the same with visual art cuz I can’t draw. Hopefully you can make something you enjoy. :) But there is a level of shallowness ai can’t go beyond.
So I personally can interpret that ceo statement as decent and true for alot of his target audience without problem. Tho, for the sake of not getting 150 downvotes, disregard everything i said and pretend i immediately grabbed my luigi hat and 3d printed poison crossbow while yelling angrily, fist in the air.
I think music might actually be truly different here compared to most other forms of art because music truly is relatively simple in a lot of genres, at least the bit from having lyrics and emotional annotations to the actual song. It will never do anything truly revolutionary of course, that is what human musicians are for but if you just need a new song in one of the more repetitive genres and don’t want to learn an instrument or how to sing to put your hand-written lyrics to music I can see AI actually working well here much in the same way music in the past had to deal with the introduction of synthesizers, MIDI,… which automated large parts of the process already.