15/01/25
Is AI a Threat to Musicians?
What to include in my essay
- What is AI
- Why AI is good for musicians e.g. helps you write
- How AI can mimic famous singers voices, can they replace us?
- Consumers can't always tell the differences between AI and genuine tracks.
- Copyright regarding songs that have been worked on AI (intellectual)
- AI-powered songwriting tools can create melodies and chord progressions for you, it's not just vocals, can they mimic particular musicians playing styles?
- the Beatles released a song using AI
- Is there anything we can do about AI? How far can it develop? Let's face it, we most likely can't stop AI, but perhaps we can learn to balance it and utilise it in a way that can help.
I'm not quite sure how to order all this yet but I thought I'd research it a bit and then decide. The only issue I can see within this topic is how wide it is, it may be difficult to fit into 2,000 words without it seeming too surface level. To remedy this, I might have to specify a certain aspect to cover and go into depth on.
The main issue I can see with AI isn't that musicians will use it, that's simply utilising it for your creative process. It's that consumers and corporations will stop supporting artists as they'll have no need for them once AI music improves. It'll leave the art to become completely useless and repetitive since AI can't really create anything completely new. There's a show about this called 'Carole and Tuesday' it's Japanese animation set in the future where AI songwriting tools have taken over and are in full use worldwide. The two main girls set out to make their own original music with instruments to show that natural music is still 'alive'.
Although naive, I do believe this to be true, our main worth in these forms of entertainment are often the people who make them. On the bright side, even if recordings become essentially worthless. Live performances will be even more desired, that is something AI can't yet replicate and it will become more popular the more people crave something that isn't staring at their screens all day. Additionally, I believe there will always be at least a small market for man-made music similar to how cassette tapes have managed to stick around, it will just be a case of attempting to differentiate what music is and isn't AI as they become more similar.
I need to find out whether or not AI could make anything original and also look into researching my topic and ensuring it's not too broad.