A.I. - the fast approaching end of music "professionals" ?

[LVZ]

There will likely always be very talented musicians, singers and songwriters.
However, getting paid for those talents may soon be in doubt.

The video shows key excerpts from 25 year music producer 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.

[justaprogressive]

1. Better? No

Different yeah after all the work's been done!

[msongs]

2. the generations who decided music should be free are getting their wish: unemployment lol

[IbogaProject]

7. I beg to differ

CDs should have been priced the same or cheaper than vinyl records. But the music industry decided to double prices while lowering costs. And they were very sloppy with many initial cd releases being just dumps of the vinyl masters onto cd with no care and then less than a decade later they started "remastering" their catalogs. People voted with their feet. Plus the main things that have caused music purchase declines are video games and home media like movies and pay tv show content.

[Rizen]

3. The same thing applies to artists like me, sadly.

[highplainsdem]

4. As I pointed out when you posted this in the Musicians forum, Henning Pauly sold out to AI. Real artists

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who care about real music oppose AI.

It's completely unethical to use generative AI tools trained on stolen intellectual property, and it's disgusting that Pauly ever thought it was okay.

No one who cares about art and human culture - and who has ANY sense of ethics - should be siding with the AI-peddling robber barons and the people foolishly and/or lazily using those tools.

None of the AI peddlers and AI users are creating anything, or learning anything. They're cannibalizing real artists' work, dumbing themselves down, and harming the environment while they're at it.

[OldBaldy1701E]

5. You got it. (n/t)

[LVZ]

6. The full 44 minute video

I prefer the shorter TL;DR version but here's the original: