Just sat through a disheartening video from my former drum-teachers at Drumeo, about how AI is inevitable and that musicians that don’t use AI will be left behind, comparing it to when tractors came to farming… wtf?
Just sat through a disheartening video from my former drum-teachers at Drumeo, about how AI is inevitable and that musicians that don’t use AI will be left behind, comparing it to when tractors came to farming… wtf?
Bad news, if AI causes musicians to be denied a livelihood, it doesn’t matter if the musician adopts AI or not.
The mechanism for this would be that random slop generator is valued as highly as human written/performed music, and no amount of using AI will keep the musician “ahead” of the curve.
If the good musician uses AI with the same care taken for their own music, it probably won’t speed up the creative process.
Depressingly, I’ve seen enough slop released as “music” that I can believe the music economy has been terribly diluted by AI, but adopting AI won’t fix the problem for the musician that already has the skills to not need AI.