This is Why AI Musicians Will Never Be Happy

This is why AI musicians will never be happy

I think we're seeing a lot of people right now that have wanted to make music for a long time but never put in the time to actually develop their skills and hone their creativity. For that reason, AI feels like a godsend to them. Because it gives them a level of control that far exceeds what they had before. Because they were never actually good at music, they don't understand that a skilled musician, with a clear vision of the sound they want to achieve and the means to actually create it through instruments and production software, will always have a finer level of control than an AI prompt will ever have. Because certain nuances in music cannot be articulated in any language that an AI can understand. Music is a language in itself and not everything can be translated directly between languages. But when you talk to them online you'll notice how angry they are with the way people discuss AI music and how it really eats at them. I think it boils down to one thing.

You can AI generate as much music as you want. Nobody can stop them from doing that. But they can't AI generate people's respect. They come to realize that this unrestricted feeling of control that AI gives them doesn't extend to people's thoughts and feelings and there's no prompt they can write to make people take them seriously as musicians. And that's what really eats at them. You can tell from the way they continually lash out at the way people discuss AI "musicians." They start raging and name calling when they realize the control that AI has afforded them only exists in the digital realm and does not extend to the real world. And that's what really bothers them because the whole reason they make AI music to begin with is to pass themselves off as musicians and gain people's respect for it. And they just can't do that.