I have a very pragmatic view on music: all I care about is whether it sounds good or not. That’s it. That’s literally it. And from that standpoint the advent of AI music has been a major net positive for me.

You can choose to ignore that and come tell me about the ethics of using AI or how you care about the story behind the song and so on and that’s all fine but just note that you’re no longer addressing what I’m actually saying here.

I’m also not claiming it’s great - only that it’s good. I’ve yet to discover an AI song that I go back to like I do with many human-made songs but if I want to put on a playlist playing in the background then one consisting of entirely AI-made music reliably provides me well above average track after another whereas with organic music I need to sift through a ton of absolute crap to stumble upon the occasional good track that still rarely exceeds what AI is able to output. I can go on YouTube and put on a 2 hour playlist of Jazz House or similar and I don’t get the urge to skip a single track.

Currently I feel like where AI still trips is lyrics - they still are only plausible sounding nonsense once you actually start paying attention to it but especially for instrumental music it has far exceeded the level of a good average human artist.

Few examples of what I’m refering to: with vocals and without.

  • awfulawful@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    24 days ago

    Your argument sounds more like you find AI reliably good at creating Muzak, but not music. I could see that argument.

    I don’t think AI is definitionally capable of creating music that matters and has a soul. I don’t mean that religiously, but in the sense of imbuing sound with the expression of meaning and intent. It doesn’t have to be deep or fancy. However, art is human expression on some level. Perhaps a very collaborative version of AI could help a person accomplish that, but nothing that just spits out an entire song or section on its own.

    We are not so devoid of available music (the opposite) for it to be necessary. Art is also one of the things we should have more time for if AI delivers on its promises.