I have a very pragmatic view on music: all I care about is whether it sounds good or not. That’s it. That’s literally it. And from that standpoint the advent of AI music has been a major net positive for me.
You can choose to ignore that and come tell me about the ethics of using AI or how you care about the story behind the song and so on and that’s all fine but just note that you’re no longer addressing what I’m actually saying here.
I’m also not claiming it’s great - only that it’s good. I’ve yet to discover an AI song that I go back to like I do with many human-made songs but if I want to put on a playlist playing in the background then one consisting of entirely AI-made music reliably provides me well above average track after another whereas with organic music I need to sift through a ton of absolute crap to stumble upon the occasional good track that still rarely exceeds what AI is able to output. I can go on YouTube and put on a 2 hour playlist of Jazz House or similar and I don’t get the urge to skip a single track.
Currently I feel like where AI still trips is lyrics - they still are only plausible sounding nonsense once you actually start paying attention to it but especially for instrumental music it has far exceeded the level of a good average human artist.
Few examples of what I’m refering to: with vocals and without.
Well yes but not really. I am not gonna act like I know much from this but I think there is some randomness in the results, that’s why you just don’t get the same thing every time. And there are also prompts, which is just them guessing the output based on your input and they were trained on input before blah blah blah.
In any case it would be kinda average but not really. Also the average of all music would probs sound terrible, just like when you mesh a bunch of pics together they make no sense.
I would guess it is average in a group or subgroup tho?
That’s how I understand it. I mean I don’t think the opinion is good, I hate it but uhhhh yea
Its a fuzzy statistical average based on your input, you have deviation from a pure average, as well as induced randomness that still stays near that average within preset values.
I suppose the question arises as to whether AI slop is better than Nickleback.