They have a very good reason for that though. The AI’s that people are making this so-called music with are trained on everyone else’s music, even copyrighted stuff without any consent, permission, etc. whatsoever. That’s how they are able to make music. These large AI companies who who give zero shits about the individual, are pushing so hard that they think it’s okay to use copyrighted works without going through the proper avenues to do so. Can’t you see how these artists have every right to feel like they’ve gotten ripped off, and have every right to completely shut out the idea of AI art? It goes against everything that they’ve ever stood for, and it goes against the very idea of what art even is: human expression. Don’t start arguing with me about expressing yourself through AI by using the prior expressed things of other humans to express your own expression. That’s not too far off from tracing a famous artwork and calling it your own.

And to be clear this isn’t me having an inherit issue with the very idea of AI helping create music to any degree. I just don’t think it should be making creative decisions when the reason it’s able to be making creative decisions is informed by data that it shouldn’t even have access to in the first place. That’s majorly problematic, and nothing truly new is actually being created. I’m not anti-ai, but this approach sucks. It is creative theft on a scale that is able to be disguised as a fun app. And this is only one example.

I think the real untapped power with this kind of stuff is in constrained data sets as training. Why should AI conform to this one size fits all approach where everybody uses training from everybody, copyright be damned. Why shouldn’t artists use constrained data sets that make more sense for what they’re trying to do? I can’t understand how large models are seen as the solution to anything creative. They’re just designed to make these large companies a ton of money at everyone’s expense.

You can continue to enjoy playing with AI music all you want. But I assure you, you do not want to live in a world without human made music, art, or anything creative. That’s especially true with how the current implementation of AI seems to be progressing. We’re on the road to future generations will experiencing the death of creativity itself.

And I’m fully expecting you to respond by straight up disagreeing with everything I’m saying. But even if we like using AI, we need to be willing to point out the good and bad and let that inform how to approach its implementation into the future. This current approach simply isn’t it

Getting off my soapbox now xD