CEO of AI Music Company Says People Don’t Like Making Music

I loved programming since I was 14. This was an acceptable passion to spend time on because it would allow me to be successful (read: make money).

My sister always loved visual art, and is now in art school. This is an unacceptable passion, and when she tells people that she's in art school the first response is almost always "oh so what are you planning to do with that degree?"

We have been conditioned into a very narrow definition of success. It's not surprising then that we start seeing art as "the next big problem to solve", and you have all these tech bros frothing at the mouth to be the first to "solve" it and become the next startup billionaire.

Low-effort art and music has always been around. You don't see anyone bumping those inoffensive cover albums and lounge remixes that you hear at the mall or the driving range in their cars though. Anyone who doesn't already love listening to music isn't in that position because of a lack of options in the (sigh) market. So I promise you won't see "billions of new customers" dying to consume derivative slop music.

As a musician I can tell you this is 100% true. The process of making music is soooo annoying and boring. I really wish there would be a button I could push that makes the music for me. Gosh I hate sound design and omggg don’t even get me started on music theory like chord progression? Inversions? We’ve gone mad with all this lingo.

Thats why there was no music before the invention of AI, which is where the first music came from.

But now shitty humans trained themselves on AI music and are copying it, some even for profit!!

"Artists hate doing their art" - peddler of snake oil that "solves" art

"use AI to solve made up problems" -out of touch tech CEO

End of the day music is a mode of communication. It's not a medium for consumption but a conversation. If you don't have that then you're just going to end up with bad music and no innovation.

I thought this was satire at first. CEOS of AI companies are really delusional even by CEO standards which says a lot.

I make up my own music/songs all the time when I'm bored waiting in line, a passenger in a vehicle, or in the bathroom without my phone.

Maybe one day I'll actually record something. 🤷🏻‍♂️

The fact is most people don't regularly make music. This is probably because it takes years of practice to make something that they think sounds good. If we make it easier to make music that sounds good, more people might express themselves through music.