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On the one hand, yeah, this shit sucks.
On the other hand, as mentioned in the article, auto-tune also sucks[1], and, not mentioned in the article, sampling also sucks (just to show that music "artists" were stealing from other, better music artists way before AI ever became a thing). I'm not saying that the prior existence of auto-tune or sampling excuses the use of AI (which is kind of like the worst of both auto-tune and sampling, in a way), because it doesn't. I'm just saying that AI isn't the origin of shitty musicians being "enhanced" by technology or shitty musicians stealing from their betters. In my opinion, AI music doesn't de facto suck just because it's made by an AI. However, AI music does suck (regardless of perceived quality of the music itself) because, like all modern AI shit such as writing or visual art, anything created with LLM/AI is only possible via unauthorized use of assets created by actual humans that was used to train it.
[1] - Except in the rare cases when it doesn't (the latter case being because Andy Samberg was supposed to sound like a weird space alien in that song).
On the other hand, as mentioned in the article, auto-tune also sucks[1], and, not mentioned in the article, sampling also sucks (just to show that music "artists" were stealing from other, better music artists way before AI ever became a thing). I'm not saying that the prior existence of auto-tune or sampling excuses the use of AI (which is kind of like the worst of both auto-tune and sampling, in a way), because it doesn't. I'm just saying that AI isn't the origin of shitty musicians being "enhanced" by technology or shitty musicians stealing from their betters. In my opinion, AI music doesn't de facto suck just because it's made by an AI. However, AI music does suck (regardless of perceived quality of the music itself) because, like all modern AI shit such as writing or visual art, anything created with LLM/AI is only possible via unauthorized use of assets created by actual humans that was used to train it.
[1] - Except in the rare cases when it doesn't (the latter case being because Andy Samberg was supposed to sound like a weird space alien in that song).
