"Making music is hard. Well, at least it used to be. I remember the old days, when you had to spend hours and hours honing skills, coming up with something clever or personal to say, then actually recording sounds that people would want to listen to. But that's the past. In our sparkling future, a pre-teen can dump a bunch of words into a machine and out comes a catchy tune."
"Three AI-generated songs recently topped Spotify's Viral 50 charts. One of the creators responsible for these songs, Broken Veteran, who squirted out a track about immigration policies, told the Guardian that AI is just another tool for expression, particularly valuable for people like me who have something to say but lack traditional musical training. It used to be that if you didn't know how to do something, you wouldn't do it."
"Advocates for AI art always throw the word democratization around, claiming that these machine tools remove the barriers for entry to creativity. Those barriers were actually pretty valuable, because they prevented people from having to suffer through things that are objectively bad. But again, that's the old way of thinking. The concept of bad or good hardly exists anymore. In its place, we have a goopy stew of garbage with a few nuggets of actual sustenance periodically bubbling up to the surface."
Music creation once required hours of practice, skill, and personal expression, plus deliberate recording and production. AI tools now allow non-musicians to generate catchy songs quickly by inputting simple prompts. Several AI-generated tracks recently reached high positions on streaming viral charts, and some creators portray AI as a democratizing tool for expression. Automated production removes traditional barriers to entry, which previously filtered out low-quality output. The result is a massive influx of AI-produced tracks uploaded daily, creating a crowded landscape of mostly low-value content that overwhelms listeners and dilutes attention amid millions of existing songs.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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