Before I comment, let me disclose that I have not used AI to create music, other than 1) using Copilot to give me ideas for my lyrics (but all lyrics always written by me) 2) using some software ONCE to turn my male vocal into a female vocal.

My understanding of music creation in this new landscape is akin to a spectrum : at one end, everything has been created by a person(s), and at the other end, everything is made by AI, with many variations in between e.g. where a person creates the music (lyrics, melody, harmony, rhythm, style/feel etc.) but AI ‘produces’ this music. One could argue BIAB is towards one end of this spectrum, albeit using recorded session musos pieced together into tracks based on code. I have also heard music by many humans (including some of my own) that fits the ‘technically correct’ definition in the article - that sounds like sausages coming out of a machine, or by contrast, might not have lived experience but still sounds wonderful.

To me, the current music AI is the equivalent of a large language model - it just pieces bits together informed by (copying) what has gone before it or been fed with, based on pattern probability and within a shell of coded parameters without any intelligence as such. Where I think AI music will become more challenging is when/if it becomes sentient - when it CAN feel, have emotion, have original ideas etc.

While some describe current AI music as soul-less, emotionless, no lived experience etc., I find some of it as enjoyable or captivating as music written by a person. What is different for me is that I choose to place a HIGHER VALUE (hold in higher esteem) music that has been created by a person, and in the same spectrum sense as above, some with more human content than others.

Even if sentient AI music will make really good music, I will still prefer the imperfection of human music. It’s the human flaws and creative and technical vulnerabilities that are uppermost to me. To quote a line I don’t know the source of and have probably butchered, ‘You can’t fake authenticity’.

Andrew

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Andrew D
Adelaide, Sth Aust
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