Well my position is pretty clear but I'll have to admit it might seem hypocritical since I have no problem using band in a box for backing tracks or "additional instrumentation" such as drums and bass. And I absolutely love band in a box.

But I absolutely 100% hate the hell out of Suno songs. Hate them. Hate them hate them hate them hate them hate them hate them hate them.

To the extent that I'm thinking about leaving certain groups that now are 100% comprised of people showing up to play their latest Suno composition that sounds like some piece of artificially generated crap on commercial country radio.

There aren't words enough in the English language to explain how much I hate these songs. They all sound exactly the same. Something you might hear in the inner circle of hell in the bowels of the bottomless pit in a music session being supervised by Simon Cowell.

They are simply not real songs. They are fake songs, or even worse than fake, I find them to be a violent assault on every one of my senses. Especially my sense of taste. Many people using Suno openly and freely admit that they have absolutely zero musical knowledge or any musical abilities of any kind whatsoever but simultaneously they want you to accept the fact that they wrote and produced these things. It's horrific. I can tell these Suno songs from the first second and I immediately scream and run into the other room and put my fingers in my ears.

I mean I don't even have enough words in my vocabulary to cover it properly. These Suno songs are God awful. And those voices!!!! Jesus please make it stop!!!

I literally can't bear to listen to this stuff, it's like musical and psychological torture.

And yet I realize that logically speaking someone could call me a hypocrite because I use band in a box to generate drums and bass and occasionally other instruments too although I like to play most of the stuff myself, and sing the songs myself, even if I don't have the greatest voice, because I hate the sound of AI voices, especially if they sound too good. It's truly a nightmare world for me.

And this will never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever change.

If I know going in that it's an AI song I won't listen to it.

And for all the people saying "well it's the wave of the future just accept it," do you really want to accept a world in which the music industry now has driven down its cost to zero and its profit margins to 100% because now they never have to pay any living musician anything ever again? No session musicians, no lyricists, no recording studios, no demo studios, and eventually and soon, no mixing engineers, no mastering engineers, no producers no nothing. Just a room full of computers and an infinite world of musical garbage.

I hope Jesus comes back to get me before this goes any further.

Seriously.

That's my take.

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