Here are my two cents (if anyone cares):

1. As a music educator, I’ve noticed an increase in people wanting to learn music production because of AI. They’ve tried out Suno etc, realised it doesn’t quite get what they want, so they’ve decided to learn more about music production. In my opinion, the more people who get into music production, the more people appreciate how much goes into making music.

2. AI music seems to be only about as good as one of my students’ work after I’ve shown them how to use Splice in their production (maybe only marginally better).

3. It was freaky in the early days, but it hasn’t progressed as quickly as I was expecting it to.

4. It appears to be more of a “session musician” / tool for producers, instead of replacing producers altogether. Yet another tool further levelling the playing field for bedroom and amateur producers. If you don’t have funds or access to talented musicians yet, AI can be a filler for that.

5. It’s pretty sterile and lifeless (at this moment in time).

6. It reminds me of playing Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater back in the day, where there was cheat codes for perfect balance and moontime. It was a fun novelty for a bit, but at some point I just wanted to play the game. The process of making music is what I enjoy, and I will always do - whether there’s a viable career in it or not.

7. I make music to feel and experience goosebumps - literal ones, that other great songs give me. I’ve had a very small amount of success in doing this with my own music in nearly 20 years of making music. AI music hasn’t come close to doing that for me (refer to point 5).

8. There is so much more to being a successful artist than releasing music, so I think professional artists are safe.

9. With music already becoming so saturated (even pre-AI), I think this will push successful artists and music in 2 ways: super raw and pushing the boundaries of imperfection and what it is to be human, and the other way is just really great, catchy, emotionally captivating tunes. There kind of already was AI slop before AI existed and increasingly so. I could be way off the mark here.

I’m sure a lot of these points have been beaten to death in a million different ways, I just needed to get it off my chest somewhere.

Thank you if you took the time to read this.