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I have a buddy that's a professional singer/song writer & producer. He went out of town a few weeks ago to collaborate for a day or two with another producer. I don't think he knew in advance but it turns out this other guy is pretty into AI music production. My friend (again: a professional artist and indie music producer) was really impressed with how useful it was. Sorry that this is an anonymous anecdote and not data but yeah some people have found ways to use AI to help them make art.
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I can ask him more about it when I see him at bowling on Thursday. But please understand I'm not claiming AI is good, I'm just reporting that some artists find it useful. I'm not sure that their final cut has any ai sound in it, they may have just used it to workshop their idea.
Update: they used AI to develop the song in a few different directions then picked the direction they liked best and did it manually.
I didn't ask for a copy of the song, I don't think it's released yet.
Thanks for following up. I am glad your friends still made their own song. I think AI as a conceptual tool is a more constructive application of the technology than AI as a direct generator of art.
Personally, I make things and am an artist as well. I don't think AI can directly replace what I do or what others in my field do with any satisfaction, but it can devalue the market in which I produce substantially and increase entropy and imitations to the point where signal from noise becomes harder to discern.
Yeah definitely
I've seen demos of software that uses AI to split a song into multiple tracks, one for each instrument. THAT is pretty cool. It's not lossless, you're going to lose some of the human performance because the AI has to reconstruct the sound for each instrument and it's not going to be 100% perfect, but it's a really neat (and useful) tool.
Notably, it's not the kind of thing you generally see when tech bros are touting AI.