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Yes, this will benefit record companies. But it will also benefit indie artists, who'll be able to create record label quality tunes with much less effort, jus

Yes, this will benefit record companies. But it will also benefit indie artists, who'll be able to create record label quality tunes with much less effort, just like Stable Diffusion makes it possible for anyone to be an "artist". "In April of 2023, an anonymous producer called ghostwriter used A.I. voice replications of Drake and the Weeknd to create a deepfake duet called “Heart on My Sleeve.”

lynx23 3y ago
> who'll be able to create record label quality tunes with much less effort, just like Stable Diffusion I have to ask. Was that cynical sarcasm or did you actually mean what you wrote? Because "record label quality" can go both ways...
MotherFunker 3y ago
> But it will also benefit indie artists, who'll be able to create record label quality tunes with much less effort, just like Stable Diffusion makes it possible for anyone to be an "artist". I don't think this is such a glowing endorsement of why people make music and produce music. I think AI will do amazing things to improve what we have and speed up the most frustrating parts of production (noise removal, time alignment, retuning, writing harmony parts to existing melody lines. Simply look at companies like iZotope (like RX or Neutron), Hush Pro etc - I know it sounds a little 'faster horses' but I really think AI needs to remove the 'hard' part and not the 'necessary part' of being a musician/artist/audio engineer. The 'black box' effect of AI that simply 'writes a song' feels less useful and less impactful, that's not what being an 'artist' should be about. I have a sneaking suspicion that major record labels are likely looking at AI for more boring and partially sinister means like DRM tagging/finger-printing, more advanced content-ID etc, heck maybe even virtual artists that they can spin up in-house so they don't have to pay anyone: the perfect 360 artist, geeze.
- omar_alt 3y ago
  > heck maybe even virtual artists that they can spin up in-house so they don't have to pay anyone: the perfect 360 artist, geeze. Spotify would love to direct the listener just to in house AI music that does not pay royalties to the big labels ;)
  - earthnail 3y ago
    Yes, in parts. However, the majority of money is made with the major acts. Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, etc.. They are the main revenue drivers. Royalty free music improves the bottom line only marginally, which is still substantial for an established company like Spotify where small changes in margins count, but it's not revolutionary to the market.
earthnail 3y ago
> But it will also benefit indie artists Definitely not. Music is a market with too much supply relative to the demand. We have too many indie artists that don't make a living; lowering the barrier of entry will create even more indie artists and further worsen the supply/demand imbalance.

lynx23 3y ago

> who'll be able to create record label quality tunes with much less effort, just like Stable Diffusion I have to ask. Was that cynical sarcasm or did you actually mean what you wrote? Because "record label quality" can go both ways...

MotherFunker 3y ago

> But it will also benefit indie artists, who'll be able to create record label quality tunes with much less effort, just like Stable Diffusion makes it possible for anyone to be an "artist". I don't think this is such a glowing endorsement of why people make music and produce music. I think AI will do amazing things to improve what we have and speed up the most frustrating parts of production (noise removal, time alignment, retuning, writing harmony parts to existing melody lines. Simply look at companies like iZotope (like RX or Neutron), Hush Pro etc - I know it sounds a little 'faster horses' but I really think AI needs to remove the 'hard' part and not the 'necessary part' of being a musician/artist/audio engineer. The 'black box' effect of AI that simply 'writes a song' feels less useful and less impactful, that's not what being an 'artist' should be about. I have a sneaking suspicion that major record labels are likely looking at AI for more boring and partially sinister means like DRM tagging/finger-printing, more advanced content-ID etc, heck maybe even virtual artists that they can spin up in-house so they don't have to pay anyone: the perfect 360 artist, geeze.

omar_alt 3y ago
> heck maybe even virtual artists that they can spin up in-house so they don't have to pay anyone: the perfect 360 artist, geeze. Spotify would love to direct the listener just to in house AI music that does not pay royalties to the big labels ;)
- earthnail 3y ago
  Yes, in parts. However, the majority of money is made with the major acts. Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, etc.. They are the main revenue drivers. Royalty free music improves the bottom line only marginally, which is still substantial for an established company like Spotify where small changes in margins count, but it's not revolutionary to the market.

earthnail 3y ago

> But it will also benefit indie artists Definitely not. Music is a market with too much supply relative to the demand. We have too many indie artists that don't make a living; lowering the barrier of entry will create even more indie artists and further worsen the supply/demand imbalance.