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"AI Music" is Not Music and It's Hardly "AI" Either

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 14, 2025

Music of Holland

Synthesising tracks is pointless

MUSICAL compositions are hard. Making good music is hard. Making original music is hard. Playing a musical instrument is hard and being able to compose for many different instruments is even harder. Lyrics may or may not be hard; nowadays many songs have words that don't really say anything. There's no coherent message and it looks like there's no goal as such, either.

Nowadays, with many people having the attention span of babies (saddled with social control media and notifications coming out every minute), it's hardly surprising that music is increasingly bland, lacking complexity, originality, and investment (of time/capital). There are even people out there who think of "writing a book", by which they mean "instruct a bot to spew out hundreds of pages with words" (worthless text that nobody has any desire to read, even without knowing it's spewed out by a bot).

The goal isn't to make good work but to boast to people ("I'm writing a book"). Similarly, with music, people believe that shouting at a microphone is music, playing samples in a loop is music, or mixing various tracks is "DJ" and thus an art. The latest hype ("all the rage") seems to be "AI music", whatever that even means... there's typically not even Machine Learning anywhere in that.

Then there's image fusion, which might be good for laughs and pranks (or to serve as "fillers"). Those aren't going to replace hard work.

When it comes to music, some people speak of "AI"-generated tunes. I heard some. It's horrific, not terrific! It's pure junk. It's not worth anybody's time. Those are "mixtapes" sans humans or horrific sound mashups meant to be admired because of hype alone. As Futurism put it the other day: "There’s no limit to the promise of artificial intelligence. Or at least, there’s no limit to the promises that the powerful make about AI" (it's not even AI).

If someone invites you to listen to "AI music", politely decline. There's no lack of music out there. Synthetic garbage is a solution in search of a problem.

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