[A_D_E_P_T]

> The time comes when music played by real people, even with mistakes, will be valued more than electronically generated performance.

Robin Hanson recently said something to the effect that this might be the last era of human-dominated artistic production. As such, that works produced in these days -- these final days of the human arts -- might be especially prestigious and valuable in times to come.

I believe it. Suno is shockingly good already, and it's only going to get better. The curtain on human composers is probably going to drop faster than we think.

[spacechild1]

Suno et al are trained on existing music created by humans. What happens when "real" musicians will stop publishing new material out of frustration because they will drown in a sea of AI generated garbage?

[A_D_E_P_T]

I'm sure it's possible to guide them to originality. And, in fact, even Suno at this very early stage in its development is capable of creating original music, sometimes even by accident.

I had wanted to coax it to produce structured/"melodic" dark ambient music like this: https://youtu.be/2L-lA0xqzKo?si=SESlJhPjKvRyUeTm&t=614

What it came up with was not much like what I had intended. It appears to have interpreted "ambient" in the alternative way -- as in ambient café noises and background murmurs. What it produced was a conventional hazy ambient track with what seems, in a dreamlike way that's hard to grasp, like a conversation running in the background. Quite unusual! https://suno.com/song/45b23814-59e2-480e-9a2a-7c7a895b3957

[spacechild1]

I am sure you can use it in original ways. I got some pretty interesting and strange results myself by giving it contradictory or absurd prompts.

I am a composer of experimental music and I can totally see how I could incorporate these AI tools into my existing art practice and use it in transformative ways. But that's not how most people - and the bad actors in particular - will use it!

[p0w3n3d]

Exactly. This is a negative feedback loop. And it will render people stupid, fragile, overwhelmed and depressed. Only those who persevere this will be able to create something new, but rest of humanity will be melted in auto-generated content with less and less entropy