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50,000 new songs are uploaded to Spotify every day. On Soundcloud, it's over 120,000 per day. Is Seth not aware that people were already making lots of music, a
by mjr00 4y ago
50,000 new songs are uploaded to Spotify every day. On Soundcloud, it's over 120,000 per day. Is Seth not aware that people were already making lots of music, and that more music is released beyond Drake and The Weeknd...?
There is already "too much" content to consume, for some definition of too much. If AI-assisted music creation boosts the number of songs on Spotify from 50,000 to 500,000 per day -- does it really matter? If you're an artist who doesn't have a fanbase, you're currently releasing music into the void, and you would be in a world of AI-generated music spam, too.
Making a popular pop song is 10% about the song itself and 90% a combination of marketing and luck. AI isn't going to change this. Thinking that people are going to stop listening to Nicki Minaj or Taylor Swift because other music exists is, frankly, really stupid.
- mlyle 4y agoAI might instead significantly increase the quality of the lower 80th percentile of those 50,000 songs, though, which is a different thing. In turn, that could widen the long tail of what people are interested in a lot.
- nluken 4y ago... or it will homogenize that lower 80th percentile (which needs to do something out of the ordinary to stand out) and decrease interest in it even more.
- checkyoursudo 3y agoAs AI becomes the largest producer and consumer of all new content, eventually the median song will just be 440 Hz for 2.5 minutes.
- mjr00 4y agoThere's already a ton of really, really good music in that 80th percentile, that barely ever gets heard. Some of my favorite songs ever have like 10,000 plays on Soundcloud. Lack of quality is not the reason that bottom 80th percentile doesn't get heard (or the converse: it's not the reason that most people don't listen to that bottom 80th percentile).