OK, I finally investigated Suno, and listening to their featured songs, I am incredibly impressed.

A lot of it sounds like what is happening today on the pop/rock/country genres, even with an occasional processed vocal track. If I heard many of them on the radio or Internet stream, and if I wasn't analyzing “is this real or AI”, the thought that it is AI wouldn't have occurred to me. Even some of the processed vocals sound like someone singing with auto-tune.

If I were a songwriter or studio musician, it would make me apprehensive.

It seems anyone with little or no musical years of musical learning, development, and practice can create a commercial song.

Whether it can produce a great song or not is not the question. Most of what I've heard and covered through the years were good songs, but not great ones.

My main profession is gigging. I cover the songs I think my audience wants to hear, and/or songs they have requested. I do some “like the record”, some similar but with our own take, and some entirely different. Most of my instrumental solos are improvised on the spur of the moment. I enjoy the creativity of that. I don't think AI is going to cut into what I do soon, DJs, Karaoke, Open Mic Nights, and TV/Sports bars have done that already.

My side-gig is writing after market styles for Band-in-a-Box. This is similar to songwriting, in that I take all I learned, and something or many things that influence me, and turn it into something that can be used in BiaB to play commercial or original songs.

Would I want AI to do that for me? Personally, I don't. Why? I enjoy the creativity, taking different notes and rhythms, as if they are a puzzle, putting them together, and creating something. In short, I enjoy the process, and when the puzzle is finished, I get the glow of accomplishment.

But that's just me. And I would think most artists in the 4 arts enjoy the process. AI producing a landscape painting, reclining nude, Mone-Lisa come lately, impressionist work, surreleastinc scene, abstract canvas, or anything else for me, would be like looking at somene else's work and not the same a creating it myself.

But on the commercial, corporate, mass produced art level, AI could be a real moneymaker by eliminating the creators and letting the machine do it.

We live in some interesting times.

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