Over 200 Creatives Drop a Humorous Warning about AI’s Budding Career in Music Composition
“200+ artists warn about generative AI meddling in music”
“Just because generative technologies can automatically produce chord progressions, melodies, rhythms and lyrics, that doesn’t mean they should be used to form the fundamental building blocks of our music. It’s about recognizing the value of the human input to an art form that has always been inherently human.”
This begs the question then, what’s next? Will generative technologies start penning the world’s next great novels? Perhaps they might even take a stab at portraying the enigmatic Mona Lisa on canvas. After all, Photoshop has an array of impressive features these days. Who knows, the day may not be far when we have software churning out the next exquisite Versailles-esque landscape designs. Surely, the whirring cogs of AI could add a much-needed mechanic touch to our oh-so-human gardens.
Jokes aside, there’s no denying the capabilities of generative technology. Melodies, rhythms, and chord progressions formed by digital neurons can look impressive on paper, or rather, sound alluring in ones and zeros. Nonetheless, it’s crucial to remember that the core of music, much like any form of art, is human emotion. Those intricate webs of feelings that result in the beautiful chaos of creativity, that’s where the true beauty lies.
Just because tech wizards could crank out code that composes music, it doesn’t automatically translate into touching a chord with every listener. Evoking emotion through music is a delicate art, it’s not a linear equation that any binary code can solve. And yet, to completely dismiss the potential of generative technologies in enhancing musical creations would be extreme.
The magic probably lies somewhere in the middle, a harmonious blend of artificial and human intelligence. Or, perhaps it’s even beyond that. Oh, wait! Generation of free-thinking AI androids that compose awe-inspiring symphonies, now, wouldn’t that be something to look forward to?
Sarcasm aside, it pays to tread carefully in the realm of music and generative technologies. After all, balance is the key in art as in life, and while humans have written songs about machines, it’s hard to imagine a robot penning an ode to human heartbreak. Or maybe, just maybe, that’s the next number one hit. Stranger things have happened.