A.I. and Prog???

Go, Joe! 

I've enjoyed the track (especially vocal) remover/isolator. I'm a musician. I play real instruments, but I can't stand my voice, can't find musicians, and I've thought about using AI instead, but have looked for some of my favorite singers singing my favorite songs by other bands as long as it matched.

I think someone using Ai to compose prog would be the worst thing ever. I love music and art when it has a human component in it. Even when it is bad, I can still at least respect it. AI art and music are not human, and thus I feel nothing but discontent towards (also because a lot of AI art uses art from people on the internet which is basically just stealing so that is also a net negative for AI art)

I rather listen to Love Beach a thousand and one times before I will say anything good about AI art.

In the end, and this is the most scary, it will be very difficult to believe any musician about the originality of his/her work...

It must have been written by the musician or will have used A.I.?

Jimmy Page once said that he would tune his guitars to different odd tunings just to generate new musical ideas.  I've done that also.  It is very powerful.  AI is similar.

As a teacher, I haven't dealt with a tool like ChatGPT yet.  Instead of hoping my students would NOT use that platform, I would assign them to complete a paper using ChatGPT, then hand-write the answer, analyze the facts and improve it with their thinking skills.  I'll do that someday. 

Musical tools like Mellotron were once feared and reviled by traditional orchestra musicians, who saw the device as a threat.  Bah.  If anything, classical music is more popular and accepted now.  

 

A long time ago, I read something about using random noise to generate musical data. It said that a pink noise distribution is the optimum for creating interesting music. White noise creates music that is too erratic, and brown noise creates music that is too dull.

 

Music is created in the ear of the listener.

We may have emotions when listening that have not been put into the music by the composers, and we may feel something also when listening to AI generated music.

When I was at school we had a very innovative computer class, and as a project I coded a "solo generator" that would just play random notes on a scale with random length but some side conditions respecting the rhythm and some musical "rules" that made it slightly less terrible. It didn't shake the world of music to the core to be honest, but that was in 1985 or so. With today's possibilities it should be possible to do a far better job.