Liked this interview because Rick Beato's take is very realistic. Humans will not care, and humans won't stop making music, but AI will likely affect musicians' pay, devaluing music as a way to make money even more overall over time. Tay Tay and all other singers... might need to get a side hustle.

I respect Rick a lot but this was a masterful lesson on how not to answer questions straight and honestly. You gotta understand that Rick's already made. He's set and financially secured, so of course he is not "worried", and the same goes for all artists who already have a name to themselves and enough financial assets to be able to spout any optimistic opinion about this matter. The reality is it is already insanely difficult to make a living as a musician. This new tech will only put the final nail in the coffin of an already evident trend. Also, some of the questions asked were very imprecise. "Will AI eventually replace all musicians?" Man, that's a very poor question. Of course not. Not all musicians will die out. Watchmakers did not die out entirely neither, but how many people live off of creating luxury mechanical clocks in this day?

Good conversation. I applaud the fact that you were able to suppress your own fears and allowed Rick to voice his opinion. Every new technology is met with fear, because of the unknown and the fear of losing what you already have. Current music is created using technology. Look at AI as an additional tool for music creation. I really like the examples Rick gives how to use AI.

Very well done interview. Congrats!

Wow, it's kinda spooky how AI music is starting to sound just like stuff we humans make. It’s wild to think we might have to start calling tunes ‘human made’ just to tell the difference

love it!

I love making and listening to music so i'm going to keep pushing myself to become a better writer and player and try to learn everything there is to know about the art of mixing and mastering. I don't want AI to take away any of the creative experience from me. If we give away our art creation to the machines and our culture and the things which make us human what will we be left with?

I think rick misunderstood the question about whether ai will substitute professional musicians. It doesn't matter if people still enjoy making music themselves - in order to be a *professional* musician you have to find someone to pay your for that. And this will get harder and harder the better ai generated music becomes.

5:31 "The first programs were Performer and Composer" -- SAME HERE! I loved Performer and started on it about 1991 until the mid 2000's. Ran them on my Macbook 185 and others Apple computers. I still have my Yamaha and MOTU Synths.

Considering the knowledge and experience of participants in the podcast, I was hoping for a more comprehensive conversation about the impact of AI on music, art and creativity. I also expected a deeper comment from Rick Beato. For someone whose entire channel is based on music technology, music theory, musical creativity and musicianship, it seems like he looked at AI from a somehow smaller perspective. Current GenAI and LLM based systems marketed as AI are not the same as DAWs, autotune, sampling or loops etc., there is a fundamental mistake there. Since he has closely observed the technical development of music technology for years, he has evaluated the current role of AI very limitedly, seeing it as a "new tool". This is the perspective of almost all AI supporters as well; “a new tool”. In a way, it is, but the technology currently marketed as AI is like a Pandora's box. This technology, which will obviously lead to huge socioeconomic changes, is actually a perfect weapon for transferring wealth in the hands of venture capitalists, billionaire tech capitalists and mighty tech companies. On the other hand, in addition to the legality of the data sets used in the AI training , copyright, consent and the ethics of AI, when we look at the basis of this technology, it is actually open to debate whether it is really an "AI" or not. But these aside; The main problem with these GenAI technologies is that it is a system that produces results by reducing creativity to the products of very complex probability distributions based on billions of parameters and codes defined only by a set of possible indicators. What is the impact of such a technology on the cultural evolution of humanity and human cognitive abilities? What concrete impact will it have on abstract concepts such as music and art, which are actually tied to real human experience? I'd love to hear what they think about this. Beato is someone who has closely followed the technological developments in the field of music and their impact on music. He occasionally makes Spotify top ten reviews and complains about the poor musical quality of new hits. So, the effect of all these technological developments on music is not always positive. As he said, if there will be separate "AI music hits" lists in 2 years, I am very curious how he will evaluate them.

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Rick's insights into our AI future are fascinating.......and frightening. Glad to be an old buzzard who won't be around to see how this all plays out.

Thank you for this interesting video. I'm now a new subscriber.

Yeah, clearly it wouldn't replace everyone. But it replace a lot of people. If you write background music for media, you better find something else real quick because there aren't going to be a lot of people able to survive in that area. The average production music composer who just writes generic music is about to disappear for sure. BTW, Rick is THE man when it comes to all of this. He's very open minded and knowledgeable. And your Coldfusion channel is by far one of the best KZfaq channels I've seen! very well produced and researched. I'm a big fan.

Fascinating look at the future of music and how humans relate to it. I really appreciate Rick's DEEP understanding of the probabilities of AI generated music. Super interview!! 👏👏👏 BTW This is an H.I. generated comment. (Human Intelligence) LOL!!!

As always. This podcast deserves so much more attention

Had all these conversations with friends a month ago, when this AI first hit. The future was immediately obvious. Within a month a million musicians, within a year, mass permanent gig musician unemployment and chart topping machine-made songs. This stuff grows exponentially. You think you have time to adjust, when you really don't. The way AI has to improve is obvious. More tools are needed to guide specifics, like locking in vocal characteristics and setting fixed BPM. Maybe even some live functionality down the line, with songs adjustable on the fly with a pitch wheel or a midi controller. This is a gamechanger for people with amazing vocals, but no bands. All of those people singing along to their favorite bands, because they can't play anything themselves. Old stars who held the monopoly on old methods of production out and new AI artists in to flood the airwaves. I've already switched a month ago to AI songs for listening. Every person has a fixed number of spare attention hours during the day. If I'm listening to AI, that means I'm not listening to anything else. I'm discovering new genres without finding about new human instrument players. They're out of the picture. My own videos no longer have to be demonetized over a few seconds of copyrighted sound. I never have to rely on someone else's music again for the background tracks. Even if they pull the plug on AI, I've already made a library of hundreds of titles to use later on. A rainbow of moods for various editorial choices. I'm already set for life. And please, pay attention to comments below AI hits making rounds on youtube right now. See what people say and how they guiltily admit out loud that they can't stop singing to something, that takes away jobs. They already do know and admit, that if a song is good, they don't care how it's made. In a year, music will be abundant and entirely devalued. Live performances will still earn cash, but expect profits to plunge to single percent digits, literally over 1 year. This is what the invention of a car was to horse buggies.

One thing that many people keep forgetting about AI it's the fact that it never sleeps. It progresses every minute of the time we spend doing anything else. Ten years from now this world will be totally different. Especially our perceptions. We could be very easily influenced by someone /something that successful. Sad but real.

Good discussion. Thanks for sharing it. ✌️

I think becoming a professional musician will become more difficult as it will be for sound engineering etc. Becoming wealthy from being a musician will be even more remote, but making music for enjoyment of doing it yourself will not disappear, and performing live will remain a human emotional enterprise.

My favorite youtubers together. Great

Great interview and discussion. Thanks guys!

Harry Mack needs to get on that audience based prompted music freestyle idea!

It wont replace artists or live musicians but studio musicians? Yep writers ? Yep

Ha ha!! It reminds me of Milli Vanilli. 😂😅

Which should I watch first? Am on the CF side... 👍💪✌

People seem to forget in this new doom & gloom ai trend. None of the music Ai creates can be copy written therefore no one owns it. So it cannot be sold or licensed legally. You cannot accept financial means for something you don’t own. Will people still do it? Yes, because there will always be crooked people.

I bet his son could tell only because he was primed first and told it was AI. The same way people say they can tell an AI photo, but when you actually test them blind they can't

Ai does not need to replace musicians. It will simply create its own market and take over (some) of the services (esp with repetitive tasks)that musicians provide for especially a certain demographic

Attn: Barry Manilow. New lyrics have been assigned. I write the code that make the whole world sing I write the code of love and special things I write the code that make the young girls cry I write the code that writes the songs

Ah yeah, I used MOTU Performer on a toadstool Mac when I was in high school.

The top songs are very repetitive, if you can be replaced with AI you never had a job to begin with. The problem is that these jobs are too complex for a computer to replace them. I mean look at DJs they have thousands of songs on their Hard Drives, but only play specific songs at specific times, those computers can't replace the type of "computer conducting" that DJs have learned over a career. If they can't do that, they will never replace a live band.

we're screwed kids. maybe small live shows will endure, but large scale work is going to go away.

44:12 (accidental?) Westworld reference is on point

Imagine a dj prompting in real time, you see the prompt " horse laser on ice planet" you have no idea what that sounds like. Suddenly to the composition you are already hearing a realistic sound you have never heard before is added. I would attend that concert. For classical music could be something like monet on acid idk hahaha

Great interview! Love the thought experiment such as jamming live to AI generated tracks. I am going to try this! I already Jam to loops,, AI tracks the next step for me!

AI is big techs trojan horse.

Live music in small venues, please...

They are used to hypnotise everyone

Songwriters who use ai will create more songs mare quickly but it's still up to the ear to make a determination if it sounds good.

1858: "Why a train can never really replace a horse&carriage." 1898: "Why an automobile can never really replace a horse." 1928: " Why an airplane can never really replace an oceanliner." 1988: "Why computer games can never really replace real world games."

What about If you had a Tracy Chapman in ur back pocket

Every thing is great until there is no electricy

19:50 - i thought he was going to say Billie A.I.lish

Music theory is obsolete. It is certainly a misnomer. The great bassist Victor Wooten contends, [paraphrased] " ...what we have determined as music theory is really only note theory..." He suggests that music is something else that has nothing to do with written notes, instrument playing or conventional musical training. Music is deeper. A.I. is a good thing if it leads the way a greater understanding.

There's already some great AI songs on the channel Obscurest Vynil!

Just put out a single called Slight Infractions that is my lyrics with Ai music. You can find it on my page among human performances too.

with a bale

Yes! cover band for Ai I can sing like anyone

The question of whether AI will take jobs away from musicians is short sighted and uninteresting. The real question is whether AI will remove the necessity for people to have jobs in the first place. AI will produce so much wealth so quickly. Will the rich and powerful be able to capture all of that wealth, leaving the general population to live in squalor? Or will we be able to share all of this wealth for the benefit of humanity?

What defines quality in music? ...IMO human heart and soul.... the generator of emotion that drives our creativity comes from the heart of God of creation through us.. the God of creation ... not machines... having a soul is something AI doesn't have... it cant be reproduced.... the end product or creative piece is missing the most important ingredient of all... heart and soul ... code can never be written and reproduced by a machine.... Its just a somewhat tasty neuronal unhealthy treat thats probably about as healthy as GMO or synthetic foods are excellent for human health... we create to share with other humans... human to human connection is powerful and healthy... why would anyone ever want to replace that?

Great. It’s an AI voiceover too. 🤔

What about NEVER SAY NEVER? 😊 I MADE A VIDEO A FEW YEARS AGO ABOUT THE AI ripping the born skills from everyone soon, which will be terrible for the mental health of those people and even for everyone else. Imagine what will happen when our expectations will so high, even AI won't be able to provide us with new content that fast? What then? I am talking 20 years from now max. No laws will be able to stop it now so.... 😮😢

14:40 wouldn't it be more than you sound great in the free then buy the Paid only to find you Mae B don't sound that great then have to spend a Small fortune buying the better sounding Add Ons.

The process of creating art is dead. Reaching out with music AI generated or not, is dead. Rick Beato posting "Hello" on social media once, gets 10000 more likes, than most producers/artists get in their lifetime for all their released tracks.

What people dont undestand by saying they will still play their instrument or learn to sing even with AI.... Is why the next generation will do it ? IF you cant make any money OUT of it ANY CARRER because your proffesion has been completely devalued by machine why are you gonna spend your life and energy to do it ?like agriculture has been or handcrafting ? I saw less and less kids that want to learn an instrument nowaday more than ever in human history and pretty soon will be the same with real singing and even lyrics making has AI make cheaper and quicker Poem than everyone of us by just stealing us and art history data directly and play "random" button ...that basicly what Ai does... Playing instrument or singing will be irrelevant the same has going fishing in your lake or growing vegetables in your garden for the next future...a small porcentaje of population yes and not a necesity just a hobby... THE PROFESSION IS DEAD ...TECH COMPANY JUST KILLED IT AND THEY ARE LAUGHING AT US LIKE PSYCHOPATH THEY ARE...THE TRUTH HAS TO BE SAID Big part of the population gonna be poor jobless...for just a few CEO tech beings rich as fuccj... Paradox capitalisme Will prefer die to see this with my own eyes

That’s a different discussion. The fact that music or any other art form made by an AI-tool can be as pleasing as human art piece. The trust part comes in when AI generate art is marketed as human generated. But that would be plain fraud. Fraud exists as long humans exist.

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Synthetic transhumans like synthetic transhuman muzak.

This is the final nail in the coffin. Near total devaluation of music. Stock music is dead, almost overnight. Musicians were already getting fleeced and barely making ends meet playing live. This has been well documented over the last decade. How will we know when something is made solely by a human? We won’t know and eventually we won’t care and there goes a part of our collective culture. This is total thievery and we need legislation yesterday. This should be a much bigger story in the media.

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You can’t copyright a voice. He should know better, being held out as an expert. Generally, the interview is otherwise informative.

AI is VERY good at copying existing genres, so the people who should be scared are the ones copying others to make generic sounding music ,,.,

pale

AI is the most disrespectful exploitation machine of anything of real value. Why should a real artist like that? It's so incredibly boring and cheap - It’s so sad 😢

is that why people are so dumb now

He is so done; old guy not needed anymore.

Consumers will use AI to create their own music/playlists, no (artists, music gear, producers, record labels, streaming services, etc.) middlemen needed.