Honestly I don't care. So much music today is autotuned to hell, written by professional committee, and mixed by jackasses to create a corporatized sound that there's probably more creativity in AI generation than what comes out of studios.

Plus there are creators like There I Ruined It that utilize AI as just another tool or instrument to make truly entertaining music I can easily get behind and would actually pay for.

I just listen to the same stuff I listened to growing. Maybe listen to a couple new ones a year that I like so I'm not listening to any AI stuff

I'm massively against the AI music

Music is an organic, soulful, human creation with imperfections and nuances that our conscious brains don't hear, but our subconcious does. Humans have soul; AI simulates soul. When someone is down, when a loved one dies, or after a horrible divorce or loss, I hope that if they listen to music to heal, it's real human music, not computer-generated noise that sounds almost exactly like human music. If not, then why are we even here?

The Ex Officio Director said:

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AI is the future, a person sitting in their bedroom with a laptop and sound board can pump better music than what is out there right now.

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I think these are 2 different things, AI generated is one thing, someone with a laptop and sound board is different to me. Someone like fred again.. unquestionably uses a lot of sequencers etc but its still human created/inspired with experience and feelings drawing on that rather than someone typing a text prompt and hoping to vibe something out. For me part of music and any creative sound endeavor is trying to see how to replicate what you hear in your head and manifesting that using whatever tools you can. I suppose AI is a tool but to me the leap between a text prompt and actual music is too far of a gap for a machine to make.

It's trash and I hate the very concept down to the center of my soul.

But

As with all things like this, it is here to stay and it will gradually wear down the barriers of folk like me until we stop caring. We may never embrace it but we will accept that it has a place in the industry.

That being said, I am a metalhead and that genre will probably be the last holdout against it in general use.

AI music goes against absolutely everything music exists for. It emulates emotions and breaks them down into 1s and 0s. It steals musical ideas from real artists and forms them into an idea of perfect. Life imitating art is endearing, AI imitating art is perverse and insulting.

AI is fine if used to speed things up like travel research or trip planning. I've done that myself and it's super efficient. Cut what would have taken me half a day to plan down to a 20-30 minute "conversation" with Gemini

I'm absolutely against it for anything related to music or art. It doesn't have the soul or heart in it that humans add

Granted most of today's ****ty music doesn't either but the point stands

fav13andac1)c said:

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AI music goes against absolutely everything music exists for. It emulates emotions and breaks them down into 1s and 0s. It steals musical ideas from real artists and forms them into an idea of perfect. Life imitating art is endearing, AI imitating art is perverse and insulting.

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Agree. I'm not even sure why you want to seek music out that you know wasn't created by a human being.

I'll go a step further than others and say that I think people who listen to AI music have no taste. Not just bad taste - no taste.

Diggity said:

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fav13andac1)c said:

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AI music goes against absolutely everything music exists for. It emulates emotions and breaks them down into 1s and 0s. It steals musical ideas from real artists and forms them into an idea of perfect. Life imitating art is endearing, AI imitating art is perverse and insulting.

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not unlike an mp3 encoder

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An mp3 encoder breaks digitizes music like a vinyl record plays vibrations with a needle. Not similar to AI at all.

I'm against AI music and really using AI for anything creative.

There's definitely a novel aspect to it, but over time is all just becomes undistinguishable slop. It all starts to sound the same because it's just copying whatever is already out there. That's why you see a lot of AI companies buying old physical books to scan and train their models on. As AI starts to become trained on other AI created materials, what they produce quickly declines in quality. It can't exist without feeding on human created art.

Take a look at any local facebook or community group. Nearly every single flier or graphic will be made with AI and they all look the same.

• Same font.
• Same layout.
• Same design choices.
• Same "feel".

You can spot them a mile away.

For me it comes down to the reverse centaur problem. We should strive to use tech/AI to replace the legwork style tasks which would free us to focus on creative pursuits. Instead we are increasingly handing over the creative aspects of our lives to AI. What we end up with is a reverse centaur. Horse head, human body.

I'm starting to wonder how much of Texags is AI bots trying to promote their YouTube channel

As a composer, I am ardently opposed to the use of AI for music creation, The human element is what makes music interesting and nuanced.

you can definitely ignore it