Never == "There will never be tears in my eyes as an AI sings ChatGPT-generated lyrics about the cycle of poverty a woman is stuck in (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_Car) because I know all of those experiences are made up."
The real value of AI is to be like a map, or like a mirror house, it reflects and recombines all our experiences. You can explore any mental space, travel the latent space of human culture. It is the distillation of all our intelligence, work and passion, you should show more respect and understand what it is. By treating it as if it were worthless you indirectly do the same for the training corpus, which is our heritage.
If AI ever surpasses human level in art it will be more interesting to enjoy its creations than to ban it. But we're not there for now, it just imitative, it has no experiences of its own yet. But it will start having experiences as it gets deployed and used by millions, when it starts interacting with artists and art lovers in longer sessions. With each generative art session the AI can collect precious feedback targeted to its own performance. A shared experience with a human bringing complementary capabilities to its own.
There’s also the fact that a major component of music fandom is about the community and sense of personal identity that derives from an artist or a particular scene.
Saying that you’re a big fan of a band doesn’t just mean “I like the audio they produce” but often means something much bigger about your fashion/style and personal values.
How would any of that work with AI music? Is it possible to develop a community around music if everything is made on demand and nobody experiences the same songs? Will people find other like-minded music fans by recommending their favorite prompt engineers to each other?
Our goal is for people to continue being the ones making the music. You'll still come to our site to see XYZ's newest release, it will just be more of a collaboration with AI, similar to how artists collaborate with each other and producers right now.
