Will AI-generated songs be the death knell for music producers, song writers and composers?

I don't believe they will be superior to human-created songs but so many consumers in the world have already been trained to accept much less from art anyway by the market and corporate control.

With AI's unbridled development continuing to grow, glitches will be worked out and it will impose itself in many arenas of affairs. It's too late to control it and with many developers charging ahead without regard to the consequences, and it is not only music by humans that will diminish, many other areas of human involvement be impacted. It is too late to impose restrictions on it, as well, so its growth will continue and broaden.

Not likely, but I hope it can become the death of the cheap, repetitive songs that become popular for a couple of weeks thanks to their appeal to the lowest common denominator.

Not much point in having music if there isn't a human mind giving some heart and soul to it.

Not likely, but I hope it can become the death of the cheap, repetitive songs that become popular for a couple of weeks thanks to their appeal to the lowest common denominator.

Cheap, repetitive stuff that is designed to appeal to the lowest common denominator is unfortunately what AI is best at producing en masse.

Cheap, repetitive stuff that is designed to appeal to the lowest common denominator is unfortunately what AI is best at producing en masse.

That is the point, if using AI is enough to produce these "hits" at least there will no longer be people making a career from that like happens right now. Let low quality "art" be produced by anybody.

That is the point, if using AI is enough to produce these "hits" at least there will no longer be people making a career from that like happens right now. 

Fair point, but is the concern merely the human production of "low quality art", or is it of the overall prevalence of such art in our cultural space? If its the latter, then having dealt with the former will be little more than a pyrrhic victory.

J-Pop as always sounded like AI music to me.

Fair point, but is the concern merely the human production of "low quality art", or is it of the overall prevalence of such art in our cultural space?

People like what people like, it is realistically impossible to expect everybody to suddenly have better taste and like things that take actual talent to be produced, but if at least nobody gets rich and famous for the garbage it may not feel so irritating.

Newborns will be growing up with AI music, so they will be content with it.

No. I predict a backlash against it and a move toward more live, acoustic performance.

Christ let's hope not. Music on the radio nowadays already all sounds the same. A little bit of flavour and variety will make all the difference.

I doubt it will be the death of music people enjoy seeing live.

No. I predict a backlash against it and a move toward more live, acoustic performance.

The reality is that AI music will find its place. Probably at the lowest denominator end, but it may also come up with some genuinely unexpected new directions on music

And while acoustic music may grab the attention of a few, just like vinyl has had its resurgence, it will be a minority activity.

Most popular music has sounded artificial for decades.

For commercials perhaps, but not otherwise.

Out of curiosity I have listened to AI generated music, and most of it seems very generic and unoriginal. And isn't the world full of unoriginal, generic music anyways?

Maybe for pop songs from Johnny's or akb48 but not from the greats!

No, the Autotune is. Making mediocre singers superstars.

In the future I can see a “certified human created” label on books, music, movies, etc, similar to the halal, kosher, and organic labels on food.

Best I can tell and others, AI is rehashing existing content based on the time the AI was 'trained' . They do not train continuously and if they do for a bit of conversation, it soon forgets. So most of what an AI can create is actually recreation and not new or novel.

Human creativity is still by far where we will be innovating for some time.

There will be some amazing stuff produced by smart tech (it's not actually "AI"), but there will still be amazing work done by people, too.