Originally Posted by MarioD
Steve, I think it is OK to use AI as a tool in your musical workshop. I am totally against AI generating entire songs. That is unless one uses the song as inspiration for creating their own song. YMMV
That's a reasonable position to take I suppose, to which I generally agree.

But here's a corner case. What if someone generates a complete song using AI and nothing else. And this song not only goes on to be wildly popular (think Hey Jude for example) but also spawns an entirely new genre and the musicologists of the world and general public can't get enough of it?

One point here is that upsides with 100% AI music may be possible.

But a larger point (for me) is that I'd never surrender the joy of making and playing music on my physical instruments to a bot or anything else; hence the cartoon. If others feel different on this point, no problem; music is a highly personal thing.

My main concern is the financial harm and emotional disillusionment that pro musicians may suffer due to the AI tsunami which is now upon us.

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