Man, this whole topic hits way harder than I expected. AI taking shots at music creation makes me feel a bit hyped but also kinda iffy, especially when I hear people say it plays it way too safe. You think keeping things safe in AI art helps anyone actually level up or just holds us all back?
If the “Guns in butts” / “my wife is a jar of dirt” songs are any indication, I don’t know how “safe” it will be, at least as far as content goes.
I’m similarly hyped and iffy. If you could have a model that listens to a looping segment to contextualize it, and then play with other patterns on top but through a more expressive way (or even humming/singing and allowing the LLM of sorts to compose it together), that could be interesting. Would it be panned for being AI-assisted? I’d hope not, I think?
“I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an arpeggiator and are throwing your computer out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yaz record. I hear that you and your band have sold your guitars and bought turntables. I hear that you and your band have sold your turntables and bought guitars.”
We just add AI in whatever forms it takes to the list I suppose.
