AI + Music --> What will the future look like?

[enroe]

AI + Music --> What will the future look like? I'll venture a prediction.

1. AI tools + plugins
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There will be AI equalizers that automatically analyze the material and make
suggestions: more open, closer, further away, more energetic, more centered,
etc. You can then select all these attributes and the AI ​​will apply the setting it
has learned is the right one.

The same will happen with compressors. There will therefore be dynamic,
very helpful and intuitively operable compressors.

These AI tools will help the composer, the recording engineer, and the mixer
create "their" perfect mix. AI is extremely helpful here.

2. AI song composition - in 1-3 years
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Here we already see platforms like Suno, Boomy, Aiva, Soundful, Soundraw,
Mubert, Loudly, Beatoven.ai, Udio, Makebestmusic, Jukebox and others. The
ability to create entirely new songs is astonishing. Nevertheless, the songs are
full of small errors, don't really sound optimal, and you can often even hear the
stem extraction noises that were used.

Can these platforms replace composers, musicians, and mixers?

They can't do that. AI artifacts are too easily audible, the repertoire is too
small, and the mix is ​​too poor if you have the highest standards.

3. AI song composition - in 4 years and later
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Meanwhile, the AI ​​creators have been further developed. Just as the speech-
generating platforms are now mostly quite perfect and hardly make any
mistakes, the new AI music creators have also become much, much better.
They can now create almost perfect pop, rock, dance, or trance music at a
glance, and in a diverse, varied, and original way.

And this has extreme consequences: Both individuals and music companies
are flooding Spotify and all social media platforms like Facebook and TikTok
with a constant stream of new, great songs. And the kids and teenagers in
all countries are totally into it.

Of course, there are still musicians who sing into the microphone themselves
and pick up the guitar, who still press the record button. But they are
relatively few – in the percentage range – and their numbers are dwindling.

The big companies and those dominating Spotify have discovered:
With AI creators, they can generate songs in no time, upload them in droves,
and even make money. Companies are even using AI to design live groups,
partly human, partly avatar, which are presented as live performers and deliver
fantastic, breathtaking, even superhuman live performances. TV and internet
platforms will be flooded with them — teenagers are intoxicated by them and
click on them.

An older participant at a meeting raises his hand: "Where do people still
actually sing and play guitar?" A voice from the crowd replies: "You can do
that at the senior citizens' center. My grandma goes there too. They still do
such strange things!"

[enCiphered]

Bold prediction. I’ll add part 4:

AI forum posts – already happening

AI predicts AI tools that predict AI audiences who predict AI charts, while humans argue about it on KVR using coffee from 2008.

In 2030, an AI releases a 12-track album every 3 seconds, all mastered by an AI that insists it’s ‘transparent’.
Meanwhile, one human uploads a guitar song and gets flagged for sounding suspiciously organic.

Also confirmed:
– AI EQ will have a ‘More Grammy’ slider
– AI compressor will ask you for permission
– Spotify will recommend your own song to you, but done better

And yes, live music survives…
in the senior center…
with better groove than half of TikTok.

Thank you

[vurt]

or, the ai bubble bursts and everyone realises its just a fancy "google" search.

[Constructed Identity]

My bold prediction: AI will go to war with other AI about what AI will take over. While humans sit on the sidelines using LLMs to spellcheck, AI from one conglomerate will start a war with corporate sabotage against another conglomerate. Governments will be powerless to stop the large-scale destruction brought about by an escalating global conflict fought with drones. In 100 years this will be referred to as ‘the corpo-wars’ and humans will be hanging on in a worldwide wasteland.

[Zipede]

My bold prediction: AI will go to war with other AI about what AI will take over. While humans sit on the sidelines using LLMs to spellcheck, AI from one conglomerate will start a war with corporate sabotage against another conglomerate. Governments will be powerless to stop the large-scale destruction brought about by an escalating global conflict fought with drones. In 100 years this will be referred to as ‘the corpo-wars’ and humans will be hanging on in a worldwide wasteland.

Ah yes, back to utopia.
We can only live in hope!

[VOODOO U]

Reaper

[ksandvik]

AIs will generate music that is autopopulated in playlists by AI agents that then AI agents simulating millions of listeners will trigger to generate streaming revenue, and AI agents will then pick up the money and invest it via AI agents who figure out how to make revenue, like investing in LANDR.

[lobanov]

...a constant stream of new, great songs.

Sorry, this is nonsense. All great things are rare, that's why they are great. Exceptional. "Constant stream of mediocre songs".

And your final prediction is wrong. Cinema didn't kill literature and theatre, television didn't kill cinema, photography didn't kill peinture etc.

[enroe]

My bold prediction: AI will go to war with other AI about what AI will take over. While humans sit on the sidelines using LLMs to spellcheck, AI from one conglomerate will start a war with corporate sabotage against another conglomerate. Governments will be powerless to stop the large-scale destruction brought about by an escalating global conflict fought with drones. In 100 years this will be referred to as ‘the corpo-wars’ and humans will be hanging on in a worldwide wasteland.

Haha ... yeah,

This is a scenario already described by the science fiction author Stanislaw Lem. It ends with two robot systems fighting each other on the planet.

The depressing thing about this scenario is the fact that it could very well become reality.

[enroe]

AIs will generate music that is autopopulated in playlists by AI agents that then AI agents simulating millions of listeners will trigger to generate streaming revenue, and AI agents will then pick up the money and invest it via AI agents who figure out how to make revenue, like investing in LANDR.

Yes, that sounds funny at first. But I believe it could very well be true – in the future.

[enroe]

...a constant stream of new, great songs.

Sorry, this is nonsense. All great things are rare, that's why they are great. Exceptional. "Constant stream of mediocre songs".

And your final prediction is wrong. Cinema didn't kill literature and theatre, television didn't kill cinema, photography didn't kill peinture etc.

Interesting! So you don't believe that AI will be able to create really good songs. Many people share this opinion.

I would like to point out that AI has only just begun with Open-AI. And AI learns – on the digital level – extremely quickly. Faster than any human.

With language models, we will see in just a few years that they will be indistinguishable from a moderately educated person – complete with social skills, moods, and emotions. Of course, these moods and emotions will be simulated. But they will no longer be distinguishable from those of real people.

Applied to AI-powered composition models, this means: They too will create really good songs. And many people will find that great ... however: Humans themselves will be sidelined as "original creative composers."

But secretly I hope you're right!

[eassae]

Not specifically about music, but I listened to the following yesterday and found it interesting:

[enroe]

Not specifically about music, but I listened to the following yesterday and found it interesting:

Yeaahh, this has been going on for over an hour. What's the conclusion to be drawn
from all this? What's his assessment of AI? So, what should we do?

[ksandvik]

I think for us producers, we need to be unique. LLMs are rehashing old patterns, they have a hard time improvising, and if they do this, it sounds stale, silly and otherwise not cool.

The other thing I think is that LLMs lack are a human personality, so you need to be more upfront about your background, why you are doing music and so forth, so the listeners have a connection to a human and not an algorithm.

I think one example is the connection to art and artists -- for example last night I read stories about Miro the painter. I would not read real life stories about Claude's LLM algorithm.

[lobanov]

...a constant stream of new, great songs.

Sorry, this is nonsense. All great things are rare, that's why they are great. Exceptional. "Constant stream of mediocre songs".

And your final prediction is wrong. Cinema didn't kill literature and theatre, television didn't kill cinema, photography didn't kill peinture etc.

Interesting! So you don't believe that AI will be able to create really good songs. Many people share this opinion.

No. I've just said that great things are rare. By definition. The only thing that we have a lot is garbage. After AI music became garbage. It costs nothing even if it is 'great' from some point of view (for example from the point of view of a musician who aren't able to create something similar himself).