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

[ghettosynth]

One of these dayz, when I am up to it, I will post some Van Halen type of stuff for ya, BONES...

You will luv it!!!

Post it to the cafe, it's so rare that "KVR cafe" and "I love it" appear in the same sentence.

[TechHaus]

Semi-related: came across this news segment from Singapore.


Local music studios see budget cuts from clients amid faster, cheaper AI alternatives

Local music firms in Singapore have seen budgets for client projects cut by up to 60% over the past three years. This is due to music and voice-generating AI, which is faster and cheaper than human labour. However, they say AI cannot replace client servicing, artist and strategic development, as well as branding and community development. Studios are calling for better guidelines to protect human creators in the industry.

[zerocrossing]

I can’t say for certain if it’s applicable to the plugin industry, but the company my wife works for replaced most of its low level customer service with AI agents by decree of the CEO, and now they’re having major problems with the software spewing garbage to angry customers.

Another Sunos user was recently complaining that he was canceling his subscription, because no matter what the prompt he came up with, he was basically getting sight variations of the same song, over and over.

I tried OpenArt AI, and it was a disaster. Plenty of “influencer” videos showing great results, yet it spit out a bunch of jerky garbage for me.

I’m starting to get the feeling that my initial impression that this is largely a shell game was correct.