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#325,421
GBassNorth said:
I suspect AI in music creation and performance will be a lot like Autotune but on steroids. After autotune became popular we started seeing a flood of singers that can’t really sing by traditional standards. Sure many auto tune singers have become very popular but at what cost? There’s only so many promotion dollars out there, and if all the big producers are chasing the next cute autotuned act to sign up they are invariably overlooking true natural talent that they might not have in the past.

So AI enters the scene, and I suspect it’ll be a similar situation. With auto tuned performers, and their associated band members falling by the wayside as new “bands” are fabricated out of a virtual AI world. Gone will be the days of pre Madonna singers and drug and booze addled musicians. Prime music venues might even become a thing of the past. Will it even be possible to pack a stadium with 50,000 fans to hear an AI song with no actual “personalities” on stage? The theatrics (and train wreck and subsequent back stories) of an Ozzy Osborn will be a thing of the past. The hotel trashing and stripper stories with guitarists gone wild and free flowing coke and booze in the green room will be gone. Like it or not, those back stories built the bad boy reputations of many bands and players and gave each band and member a public persona that helped drive the popularity of the band.

Where will it all end? I again suspect there will eventually be a backlash against AI, much like there was against glam and big production rock, which ushered in Punk and later Grunge rock to push back on “big production” corporate bottom line driven rock. The real question is, will there be enough boomer era listeners to sustain a traditional rock band comeback? I’m not so sure the kids that are in their teens to twenty’s right now have a critical mass of “band performance” mentality vs a critical mass of iTunes listeners and solo acts backed by no name unrecognized on stage session players or click tracks or AI accompaniment.
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I’m glad I only have 25 or so years left.
 
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Ringhammer said:
Funny thing to say, but, in general, I kinda wish I was older (59 coming very soon). To me, the near future looks bleak, and very scary. Actually IMO it already happening. My parents probably won’t be here to see what I’m afraid will be the worst of it, but most likely I will. Many think things are business as usual, and have the attitude “that can’t or won’t happen here” but one day soon (I think) everyone will be in for a big (political, environmental, and economic) surprise, and none of it good.
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As long as we can still get Irish whiskey, I’m good.
 
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Stealth57 said:
Getting there but not useful for my needs. I have tried a number of times asking AI to simplify a complex baseline. The response tends to be I can't violate a copyright so here is something close. It wasn't close at all.
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Yes, good point. I was thinking more production end.

I did ask once what a good progression progression would be from one chord to another, don't recall the chords. It was helpful, but also something I knew anyway. I have used it some for set list flow. Problem seems to be if you keep asking you will keep getting different orders in some cases. For other uses I have several I use depending on the goal. Some are better at some things than others.
 
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Stealth57 said:
Getting there but not useful for my needs. I have tried a number of times asking AI to simplify a complex baseline. The response tends to be I can't violate a copyright so here is something close. It wasn't close at all.
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I guess I'm fine with things like that. But the whole "AI making music" stuff is just problematic.
 
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dagrev said:
Yes, good point. I was thinking more production end.

I did ask once what a good progression progression would be from one chord to another, don't recall the chords. It was helpful, but also something I knew anyway. I have used it some for set list flow. Problem seems to be if you keep asking you will keep getting different orders in some cases. For other uses I have several I use depending on the goal. Some are better at some things than others.
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I don't have the time to figure out what works for what and what doesn't.
 
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AI tells me that Aug 20 is International Hawaiian Pizza Day!
Enjoy!

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