Sure. I as a musician that practised for years to play the right note in the right way the right moment will truly appreciate it when the unique style I developed with my band over years of work and sweat will be cloned in mere seconds by a multi-national corporation and their AI. Or it could be a 13 year old teenager that has the AI create music in the style of someone else.
Not that I am against sampling and remixing, but I have yet to see that AI based cloning of music can truly become an artform with it's own merits like sampling has become — or whether it will destroy the filaments of reality to such a degree music will have to become something entirely different than it is now.
What I am sure of, is that those who have power today will find ways to hold that power tomorrow.
I am the authority of what counts as an artform of its own — to myself. I mean I also have a MA in arts, so I know about art forms, but I didn't attempt to represent an authority here. So I am sorry if you perceived I was acting as an "authority" when in fect I was speaking a out my very own perspective and nothing more.
And those who figure it out and still won't benefit, because bigger entites do what bigger entites always did when technological promises loomed at the horizon.
Just by virtue of how the human brain transducers auditory signals versus visual signals there is a big disparity in being able to automate music production. We fill in many gaps for vision but to a much smaller degree for music. There's a lot less room for AI to fudge the difference between human and generative model derived music.
It will be interesting to see how this all plays out as I'm sure AI will found some use in music that has broad application and influence. But it will take a lot longer than generating pictures
One of the things those recording engineers used to battle was a high noise floor in the signal. AI lowers that signal<>noise ratio (applying the analogy to producing music or "content").
The issue isn't the barrier of entry in terms of skill or technical expertise, it's malicious and greedy business practices. And tech is ripe with that in all new ways of its own. Institutionalized, codified psychopathy is on trial here.
