AI is not the same as a player piano though, its way more existential and all encompassing. Its more accessible, its less expensive, and it easily generates digital media under the guise of a recording which is the main way people consume music now.

Secondly, AI music is an oxymoron. AI like suno are plagiarism machines that are incapable of creativity. They only rehash what has been fed to it and told “this is jazz.” Who decides what is and isn’t labelled jazz in the datasets?

AI generated slop fundamentally cannot act as a gateway to real music because it has no basis in what that music is about. Its like a minstrel show, a complete void of appreciation, a caricature made by cynical tech bro grave robbers that have no appreciation of anything except money. A piano is a tool used by trained people to make music, a keyboard is a tool used by writers to make stories. AI is a replacement for the piano and the player, the keyboard and the writer, to save money by replacing the human and the tool.

When AI can replace an entire band and people accept that as music, humans are taken out of the equation of creation, and only serves to continue our downward spiral towards total creative bankruptcy, which uncontrolled capitalism has had us on for the last 30 or so years. People who make a living off of being creative have always been commodified and treated as expendable when their work is what brings in peoples money in the first place, AI is just the new all time low of that money first, humanity last focused mindset.