The Mary Sue: We’ve already covered, at length, why AI art is not necessarily something to encourage, at least not at the rate it’s currently going. Although some of the programs may seem cool and harmless to screw around with, ultimately these sorts of things threaten the livelihoods of many talented people, via “art” that isn’t even that impressive since there’s no heart behind it, not to mention how many of them are built on art used without the owner’s permission.
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We, the human race, have an extreme obsession with progression and advancement, and while I don’t think it’s necessarily a bad thing, it certainly gets us in a lot of trouble. Even the race to the moon was fueled by this obsession. Now that AI technology is widely accessible, everyone wants to use it in every way possible and keep reinventing it. When people figured out how to make “art” with AI (even though art is inherently human in nature) everyone went crazy. And now that people are making music with AI, it could be even worse. I love music very dearly and one of my biggest pet peeves are artists whose only goal is to be catchy and mainstream. Well I feel the same way about AI music. I don’t even mind the idea of vocals sung by a non-human voice. Vocaloid is music sung by a computer and composed by a human, and there are some Vocaloid songs I really love. However, When the music is created in its entirety by AI, it's not real music, it's what a computer thinks music is.
In general I agree with the authors admittedly harshley worded opinions on AI music and art at large. I don’t think it has soul or a valid element of art that is authentic to a human, and the materials AI needs to generate music and art is more times than not taken from existing artists to feed it’s algorithms without the original content maker’s consent or knowledge. I’ve listened to AI music samples before and from what I’ve heard it is not very good. I also agree with the author that it is scary it is not on a downhill trend by any means as it is a cheaper and faster way to create content even if that content is half baked with the soul of a line in AutoCAD. However I think at the end of the article the author went down a slippery slope argument being anxious over artists being overthrown because I think it’s highly unlikely that the general public will accept AI art over human made art at it’s current level of functionality and authenticity.
Every time I see an article on this blog about AI artists, it kind of terrifies me. AI seems to be always causing trouble in the art industry, be it problematic content, copyright or legal issues, or just ethical objections. I've known that people were making music with AI for a while, but this is the first time that I've learned about it in depth and heard it. FN Meka is one of the stupidest things I've ever heard, both in terms of music and what happened. I can't believe it got signed to Capitol Records in the first place! Then there's the issue about it saying the n word, which is probably a whole other discussion in it of itself. On one hand, I'm wondering about how much control the programmers actually do have over the content creation of their AI, but on the other hand, they should've implemented something to filter it out... I don't know how AI works, but I know that this is not working right.
AI art in all forms seem to be the talk of the town. Even in my global business class we have been discussing how ai will affect certain industries. I have come to the conclusion that there isn’t a single industry where AI can take over majority of peoples jobs, but the one thing AI can’t do (at least yet) is make true art with meaning backed by human emotion. Though this is up to debate, is the emotion given from the artist or only perceived by the audience. When it comes to AI producing it music, I am thinking that at the moment it is very much a gimmick but over time as it continue to evolves it could start producing music people would actually enjoy. Though I do think it would make the music industry more stagnate since we will lose the innovation and new ideas of actual humans.
I have heard of the discussion of AI generated artwork, but I did not realize that it also was happening in the music industry. I simply can not fathom people who believe that AI produced art is the same thing as true artists. Since it is apparent that AI generated work will be a part of the future, I believe it needs to come with some sort of disclaimer and adhere to copyright laws. People and companies should not be able to exploit artists’ work without consequence. I also listened to the sound clip of the generated Ariana Grande voice singing “kill bill” and it is terrible. As in, it sounds exactly like I imagine Siri or Alexa would sound like if programmed to sing. It is much easier to detect music that is created by AI, like the racist AI rapper, but as these programs are more refined, I suspect it may become much more difficult.
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