POLL: Will you stop making music if AI reaches top quality production? including specific genres

[vurt]

not if it does it in 3-6 years, then ill carry on.
but if it happens in 50 years, ill probably stop making music.

[eLawnMust]

Will never use AI in any way shape or form, Will make as usual I will simply offer native song file for proof or make music too bizarre for AI to even understand or AI users to describe...

[ghettosynth]

Why is this poll directed exclusively at electronic musicians?

That's because that's where it will have impact first. It's discussed in this analysis of the track that I posted above.

[VariKusBrainZ]

Is this the loser topic of ‘26 ?

[jamcat]

I think AI is already doing it now in real music genres. "Walk My Walk" by (fake AI band) Breaking Rust topped the Billboard Country charts, and there's been at least 5 other AI generated songs to chart.

And then there's this:

[ghettosynth]

There will always be room for genuine human creativity....like this

[CrystalWizard]

"Top Quality Product"ion says it all. If one is making music as a product, there are easier ways to make money. If one is making art, having fun, enjoying the process, then who cares whether ML or NS is making "Top Quality Productions." Strange question, that not being obvious.

[Uncle Bastard]

"Product", "market"? It's a big assumption that people solely follow commercial imperatives when creating. The need to create, to go through the state and process of bringing something out of my own head into being, is enough. I don't give a fig if it appeals to anyone else- if it does, that's a side-effect.

[t3toooo]

For now AI is 100% generic, it can't be original because it needs "training". If you want a style that is easily spotted and sounds like the same old s tuff then use AI

[mgw38]

That is a fairly pointless question. Did chess players stop playing chess just because computers can no longer be beaten in chess? No, of course not. The purpose of making music is to _make_ music. It's the process that counts.

[enCiphered]

Exactly. And photographers quit when cameras got autofocus. Painters stopped when Photoshop appeared. Bakers retired when supermarkets opened. By that logic, music ended somewhere between Bach and electricity.

[jamcat]

I welcome AI-generated music. It's my hope that it is an extinction-level event for all the garbage that's out there and the streaming services that platform it.

What will be left standing are real bands made up of real musicians, with real front men who have real personalities, singing real songs and playing real instruments in front of real live audiences. That's what music was always supposed to be about, and AI cannot replace it. But, let there never again be room for anonymau5 DJs hiding underneath costumes as they press play, or extremely online producers who can't produce proof of life.

The bottom line I think is if you want to be a musician in the AI age, you're going to have to step up your game, and step up to the mic.

[Winstontaneous]

The thing is, there is more to music than just music. There is the culture and experience that goes into making it. Any real genre will have dance moves, clothing, a beat or two that reflect a unique view of the world. Some of the musicians who've influenced me the most...it's not even necessarily the music but just the force of the ideas that make me wonder "why did they choose to make this, now, instead of any other possibility?" Which is different from starting with random noise and shaping outcomes based on probabilities from prior, known events. That's an approach but not the only valid one.....

[Uncle Bastard]

What will be left standing are real bands made up of real musicians, with real front men who have real personalities, singing real songs and playing real instruments in front of real live audiences. That's what music was always supposed to be about, and AI cannot replace it.

I play synths live, improvised in real time; I also wear masks and an outfit, because I'm putting a one-person show on and there's nobody else. Is my music invalid because of this?

[jamcat]

Is my music invalid because of this?

I think you're asking the wrong question. Do you have a connection with your audience? Do you exude a personality that attracts not just viewers, but fans? Do you give them something that AI or any other guy in a mask can't? Do you feel like you're giving your audience everything of yourself that you can, as a performer?