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Bunny_boy · Post by **Bunny_boy** » Sat Jan 31, 2026 10:40 am

BBFG# wrote: Sat Jan 31, 2026 8:22 am More of chance it will replace DJs before musicians.

You mean for radio? I'm not sure if an AI will be able to read the room

Tiles · Post by **Tiles** » Sat Jan 31, 2026 11:30 am

DCrown wrote: Sat Jan 31, 2026 6:31 am let us create a worst case scenario.
Today 100.000+ uploads every day on Spotify, tomorrow 10 Mio uploads every day ...

It's seven million uploads daily already

https://edm.com/industry/suno-ai-music- ... two-weeks/

Just to give you an idea about how big this number really is, before AI Spotify had around 100 million songs to listen to.

SLiC · Post by **SLiC** » Sat Jan 31, 2026 12:07 pm

Spotify does not directly generate its own AI music, but the platform hosts a significant amount of AI-generated content and is actively working on AI tools with major labels (from Google AI search!)

A lot of music for media (background music for games/films) could be generated by AI, a lot of this stuff is pretty generic anyway and could be described in words (all you need)- people who may films/TV may be able to generate a proportion of their own backgrounds/folly etc with ease. That doesn't mean they will want to however...It will I think affect music 'producers' more than and jobbing musicians or songwriters/composers (people still want to go and see real people play real instruments live)

You can generate just about any picture you want know just by describing it with words, but people still take photographs...people enjoy playing instruments (tactile connection) and humans ultimate determine what is 'good' art (and what is slop) however it was generated!

agharta · Post by **agharta** » Sat Jan 31, 2026 12:32 pm

BBFG# wrote: Sat Jan 31, 2026 8:22 am More of chance it will replace DJs before musicians.

The more AI tunes there are on Spotify etc, the more useful it is to have humans to curate music for us, so radio DJs become more important.

dionenoid · Post by **dionenoid** » Sat Jan 31, 2026 12:41 pm

Tiles wrote: Sat Jan 31, 2026 11:30 am It's seven million uploads daily already

https://edm.com/industry/suno-ai-music- ... two-weeks/

Just to give you an idea about how big this number really is, before AI Spotify had around 100 million songs to listen to.

You misunderstand. That article states that Suno generates 7 million tracks per day. Those are tracks uploaded on Suno daily, AI tracks made by its users.

So that's not the amount of tracks uploaded on Spotify. Most Suno users never actually upload their results to Spotify. Just like most 'normal' musicians never upload any of their tracks made in non-AI daw's to Spotify.

Tiles · Post by **Tiles** » Sat Jan 31, 2026 12:57 pm

Ah indeed, i mixed the articles. I stand corrected.

ATS · Post by **ATS** » Sat Jan 31, 2026 1:28 pm

There is enough music out there right now that I love so if AI does take it over I am good. Also I make music because it is fun and will not stop.

nitrateaudio · Post by **nitrateaudio** » Sat Jan 31, 2026 1:31 pm

No. Musicians are performers and entertainers. But I can see AI future replace sound designers and audio engineers. Probably the plugin sector that caters to mastering and mixing too maybe.

foosnark · Post by **foosnark** » Sat Jan 31, 2026 2:06 pm

I kind of wish KvR had a subform specifically for discussing AI, so I could ignore it and we could talk about instruments and effects and production etc. in these threads instead

My prediction:

People will continue to keep making music as long as people exist, like they always have.

The music industry will continue to suck for most professional musicians, like it always has.

AI will generate some of the music used for commercial purposes. People who are more artistically minded will find ways to use AI creatively.

A lot of people will be sick of AI slop and crave genuine human music and connection. There might be a boom in live music performance, community groups and jam sessions and stuff. In a lot of cases, acoustic just to prove there's no AI manipulation going on.

Musicians like many of us, who make electronic music at home, may have the challenge of proving we're not AI through the way we express ourselves. Or it might not matter.

(Personally, I've always made music for my own satisfaction, and I don't worry about popularity or making money or other people understanding it. ll keep doing that.)

npdc · Post by **npdc** » Sat Jan 31, 2026 2:41 pm

An A.I. prompt user is not a musician. Just someone who likes to lie to himself. You get zero satisfaction from writing a prompt. The satisfaction of making your own tracks is endless. Even using loops still gives more satisfaction that an A.I. prompt. Because you mix those loops with your own original work.

And not everything they claim is A.I. it's really A.I. in the first place, just some branding to be trendy. By their standard even the 1986 Atari 520ST Speech Synthesizer would be A.I.

This A.I. thing is being pushed by force. This is why many people hate it. It will fade away with time.

jancivil · Post by **jancivil** » Sat Jan 31, 2026 9:30 pm

Literelly nothing called "AI" even resembles intelligence, none of it has any capacity to reason through a problem.
for a dumb machine it's pretty clever but without an operator directing things...

jamcat · Post by **jamcat** » Sat Jan 31, 2026 9:51 pm

npdc wrote: Sat Jan 31, 2026 2:41 pm An A.I. prompt user is not a musician. Just someone who likes to lie to himself. You get zero satisfaction from writing a prompt. The satisfaction of making your own tracks is endless. Even using loops still gives more satisfaction that an A.I. prompt.

I would rather use an AI prompt than a loop. At least the prompt is coming from my own imagination, and the results I got back would be unique and mine alone.

Loop collages, on the other hand, are the lowest form of music. They're colouring books for musical children.

But consider that prompting AI is really no different than prompting session musicians. The 24 bars between John and Paul in "A Day in The Life" came from George Martin bringing in an orchestra and giving them a prompt to play from their lowest note to their highest note in an E chord. No one wrote out the music for those 24 bars, and they really had no idea how it was going to sound. It was an experiment. If it was made today, it may have been AI that was given a prompt, and the result would have been just as unpredictable. But George Martin's role would have been the same.

Examigan · Post by **Examigan** » Sat Jan 31, 2026 10:01 pm

I remember when I saw a player piano in my Grampa's house in the 3rd grade. I thought it was pretty cool. At the time, I didn't see that as taking over the world. But now I see it was a bit like MIDI before it came about. Way later on, MIDI actually appeared, and still the world wasn't conquered.

I highly doubt AI will do it either.

npdc · Post by **npdc** » Sat Jan 31, 2026 10:01 pm

jamcat wrote: Sat Jan 31, 2026 9:51 pm
npdc wrote: Sat Jan 31, 2026 2:41 pm An A.I. prompt user is not a musician. Just someone who likes to lie to himself. You get zero satisfaction from writing a prompt. The satisfaction of making your own tracks is endless. Even using loops still gives more satisfaction that an A.I. prompt.
I would rather use an AI prompt than a loop. At least the prompt is coming from my own imagination, and the results I got back would be unique and mine alone.

Loop collages, on the other hand, are the lowest form of music. They're colouring books for musical children.

But consider that prompting AI is really no different than prompting session musicians. The 24 bars between John and Paul in "A Day in The Life" came from George Martin bringing in an orchestra and giving them a prompt to play from their lowest note to their highest note in an E chord. No one wrote out the music for those 24 bars, and they really had no idea how it was going to sound. It was an experiment. If it was made today, it may have been AI that was given a prompt, and the result would have been just as unpredictable. But George Martin's role would have been the same.

It's not coming from your imagination, it's coming from mixing other people's work. There is no way it's original. Loops are not used solely alone, they're usually mixed with original work. I'm not a loops fan myself, I'm just saying they are still better than using A.I. which is just a recycler.

Examigan · Post by **Examigan** » Sat Jan 31, 2026 10:04 pm

I'll take George Martin's genius over AI any day.

If AI replaces musicians, does the entire plugin industry die with them?