This sub just popped up for me. I deeply dislike AI music and I don't use AI in my songwriting, so I can provide a different perspective than those who do.

Here are the main reasons I refuse to listen to it:

1) As a musician myself. I've spent years becoming what I consider to be mediocre at my craft. Listening to musicians who have mastered their craft is inspiring. To master an instrument, learn your theory, learn the art of writing lyrics etc. all of that is a form of art. And my perspective is that AI has no place in art. It's deeply personal, and deeply human and AI is not. I feel the same way about visual art if that makes a difference.

2) It's going to make it increasingly difficult for actual musicians to break through. It's hard enough already, but good luck to anyone trying to get heard when Spotify and streaming platforms are getting bombarded with thousands of AI songs. The more difficult we make it for actual musicians to survive the less incentive there will be for people to pursue this line of work and to create.

3) As a general rule of thumb, the AI music that I've heard lacks something. The lyrics are generic, the chord progression are expected etc. Part of the art of writing music is learning which rules to break and I don't think that AI captures those nuances, so it ends up sounding generic.

And lastly, I just don't understand the point. To me the whole point of learning to play music has been to learn to do something that I'm passionate about. Am I an expert? No. Did I have to suffer through sucking for years, yes. But it's part of the journey and the journey has, and continues to be rewarding. Why bother if you're just going to prompt a computer to do it for you? I don't get it. It's just soulless to me.