its very easy for you to say that, but if you have built a livelihood off of doing something a very certain way that suddenly doesn't compete anymore, how are you supposed to adapt? The change is massive.

@@fakeman6542 I don't think there is an easy answer to this, for anyone...and I think the answer is going to be different for each individual. Some are just going to be able to easily pivot...like in terms of concept artists, for instance, they'll branch out into other forms of physical art and not rely so heavily on easily produced digital work that AI can do faster. As to what it means for those in the music business, Geebz or Paul are going to have more insight in that field. I can only say that it really depends on what you do with music. If you are a core musician or in a band, and not trying to produce or compose for corporate needs, then I don't think there's any real danger of being "replaced". There are always going to be humans playing and recording music, until there aren't any humans left. On the producer/composer side of it, you just have to find the niche you're good at and be better than whatever AI is producing. Use AI as the tool that it is, and find a way.

Excellent comment. Using these tools to find new musical directions is a good way to go.

I've heard far better AI music than I've heard in the last 20 years of mainstream music. If the best of AI was on the radio I would switch it back on. However, the best stuff I've heard tends to be where where someone has input their own lyrics.

Also Thanks for talking about this. Like you guys said, it's a novelty. Most people will play with it for a day or two and move on... Excitingly, the truly talented musicians will rise to the top. Maybe the music industry will change for the BETTER. If anything, I write my songs as pitches for artists who can perform them because I could never.

@@amremorse lmao. There’s a difference between using the TOOL of Ai to just generate junk and using it to bring your vision to life. Ai produces junk on its own. Period. I write the lyrics, I prompt the style I want the song, I sit there and prompt hundreds of times just to get it to sing a 30 sec section the way I need it to, I’m the one with the ear extracting samples I think I can work with, that’s a skill. And this process would be much easier in real life without Ai! But hey, we don’t all have partners we can work with! Most big artists in Hollywood have whole teams to bring their song to life. That is what working with Ai is like. I creatively direct the sound I want, once I get it, I have an idea of how I want the song to expand. I change prompts, I structure it, I aim to develop the style, I even have an idea for a melody and will sit there and generate it until Ai GETS it or gets it good enough. Not everyone using the tech is on the same level in that department. Thats why labels aren’t going to just sit there and use Ai themselves to make music without talented song writers. In-fact they’ll most likely use Ai combined with artists because once you got the first part of a song done, it’s much easier to develop the rest IRL without Ai. Ai does not produce gold on its own. It’s shockingly bad 99% of the time, even when you’re working with it. You really have to know what you want and what you’re doing to extract a smidge of something workable from that 1%. You still need to find the talented creative who knows how to use Ai to get what they want. One who has the talent to know what is worth extracting. It’s the same as people who use Chat GPT. We can tell the difference between someone copy and pasting, and someone who actually put the work in to their submissions. We can tell the difference between an Ai song and a non-ai song… UNTILL a talented person works with the Ai to create something that becomes original. It becomes original when a human works on a peice enough to get it passable as a non-ai work. When it passes, that’s how you know a person put WORK in. This does GOOD for the culture. Idk if you’ve been listening to music lately but most of what’s on the radio and charts is just crap because a lot of it is just privileged people who can afford to make it. A lot of nepotism has been in music. Ai changes that. Now talent from the lowest of socio-economic circumstance now have the tools to rise to the top. Saying I did not write a song bc I used Ai to bring it to life is an extremely daft incorrect take. I wrote the lyrics, I creatively directed the sound, I have the ear to know what I like, I directed the structure, I promoted it like 300+ times just to do my lyrics justice. THEN I moved it to FL studio where I spend days cutting crap, extracting samples, moving them around, creating cohesiveness, adding instruments… adding effects. Comping vocals. Structuring. Mixing. Im doing what a producer does. So I’m writing, directing, promoting and co-producing. If you wanna disregard that, that’s abit delulu because I own the copyrights to the final product for a reason.

@@amremorse “ripped off musicians” Ai mimics a human brains neural network. Musicians are constantly “ripping off” other musicians to create their music, if ya wanna call it that. Thats how music works. Every artist takes fragments of all the music before them to create their own original work, with and without Ai.

​​@@DarthMadVbut an artist is a human being with feelings, with a self consciousness, that makes a huge effort to learn from other artists, spends a lot of time and dedication to become a good composer. AI is just a machine in spite of its "neural network". It's an obvious difference, but anyway...I see it's the same to you. You obviously don't give a f### about it. You don't get it and just don't care. Not even as a philosophical concern. Mediocrity and lazyness at its best.

@@pieczumusic wrong. Ai is the reason I’m learning how to produce better because it now makes making music more interesting to me. I already know how to play the basics of piano, guitar and drums. Now I’m learning the basics of orchestrals and am taking song writing seriously. It takes a lot of hard work to be able to use Ai and turn it into something genuinely consumable by humans. I am making works that make people cry because of how much work I put my music. I’m tired of people saying just because someone uses Ai, that it reduces the work or one’s legitimacy as an artist. Bullshit. I wrote the song, I directed the sound, I am the one who was very critical with the melody and ensured I got the sound I wanted by prompting hundreds of times, I’m the one who cut what I didn’t like and merged different files, I sampled sounds, comped the voice, I added instruments, I mixed it. I structured it. If you don’t think artistry is part of that process, you’re in denial. Not everyone using Ai as a tool is creating on the same level. It’s just like when students use Ai in their school assessments. Just because ya use it doesn’t mean you’re gonna get 100/100. If you don’t know what you’re doing, you will fail. If you obviously haven’t done any research or put any work in to change the output, you will fail. You will only get a high mark if you use Ai in your assessment if you use it as a study PARTNER. You have to know your shit to be able to push it to generate what you need so YOU can take the output and work your magic. And even then, you’re not gonna get a high mark unless you are well-read on the topic, and know when what is coming out is shit you need to sift out, AND if what is coming out is worth working with.

Well said. Using it as a tool instead of whining about it stealing your creativity is a good stance. :)

"prompt engineering" will be gone in a few years, it just takes longer for GUI's to evolve and we are still in the early days of AI user interfaces.

If these prompts will listen. I wish i could tell it what key to use and to make a key change

I personally don't think people should quit making music because of these tools, the title of this video is based on comments in my other videos from people saying that THEY want to quit music, or hate music, because of these tools.

What exactly do you think we are trying to negate?

​@@YoPaulieMusic That AI will be something much bigger than previous digital advancements in music, more than just tools, and capable of making people believe that real musicians are playing, able to compete directly with human musicians to the point where it will be impossible for the overwhelming majority to "be better" as the guy on the left suggested. From the perspective of someone who believes these "tools" will evolve to the point of directly competing with human musicians, it is almost "cruel" to assert that "if you are surpassed by AI, it is the human musician's fault."