Scary "right now" future for music professionals

[LVZ]

Scary "right now" A.I. future for professional musicians, singers, songwriters, producers, arrangers - the entire music industry. Key excerpts from 25 year music producer and world famous Berklee School of Music graduate Henning Pauly's 44 minute YouTube talk.

A.I. can already produce a song in seconds good enough and professional enough that most pro musicians would struggle to achieve equivalent results.

A.I. can now listen to a professionally recorded song, dissect, evaluate and display all the key musical elements and then reimagine it into a new song that is objectively better in "all" aspects within minutes.

44 minute source:

[Silent Type]

1. Will be tons of lawsuits over royalties when an AI-generated song is substantially similar to an original.

Don't think I'd listen to computer generated songs, but heck people liked Milli Vanilli, auto-tune, substantial overdubs, etc.

Why I mostly listen to live concerts (videos or live released recordings).

[highplainsdem]

3. There are already lawsuits over the illegal use of copyrighted work for training data. As there should be.

[highplainsdem]

2. All the smart and conscientious people are rejecting AI. Those music generators were trained, absolutely

illegally, on all the copyrighted music the AI companies could rip off. And it's unethical to use them if you're aware of the theft.

AI is anti-creativity and anti-human. It dumbs down users.

That won't stop ethics-free companies like Spotify from not only allowing AI slop, which costs them little or nothing, and even continually adding it to playlists - betting on listeners being too stupid or conscience-free themselves to mind that it's AI.

But forums where people genuinely care about music and musicians don't tolerate AI music. And shouldn't.

[highplainsdem]

4. I remember seeing other videos you and possibly others had posted with that producer, Henning Pauly,

using AI tools himself, including for AI images. Which he was rightly getting bashed for on YouTube. He shouldn't have been using any of those tools. He was being unethical, and contributing to people thinking it's okay to use generative AI tools when it isn't.

[Irish_Dem]

5. AI can copy humans. But can it be original, creative, innovative?

[highplainsdem]

6. Re reply 4 - those older videos you posted of his were from last spring. I just looked at some of his

more recent videos and he's become a complete sellout to AI - promoting it.

Zero integrity, IMO. Zero real concern for real artists. He'd probably like everyone using AI, producing nothing but AI slop, so he doesn't have to feel like a traitor to real musicians when he praises AI slop.