Is the AI audio revolution already here?

As far a AI music goes, I think it could become viable. The record labels would be the ones to benefit greatly from it. They are the ones who feed the system anyway. People listen to what they play and promote. God knows there is tons of popular stuff that doesn't even classify as music to me that is insanely popular. If they "feed" the public with anything it will eventually become "The Thing."

When I was growing up there was a song that came on the radio that just jumped out and demanded your attention (maybe it was just if you were a teenager)...and the lyrics were of such poetic genius that no AI could ever come up with them using seemingly random snippets of text (friendly sarcasm):

Lyrics
Load up on guns, bring your friends
It's fun to lose and to pretend
She's over bored and self-assured
Oh, no, I know a dirty word
Hello, hello, hello, how low?
Hello, hello, hello, how low?
Hello, hello, hello, how low?
Hello, hello, hello
With the lights out, it's less dangerous
Here we are now, entertain us
I feel stupid and contagious
Here we are now, entertain us
A mulatto, an albino
A mosquito, my libido, yeah
Hey
Yeah

yeah but the lyrics didn’t matter that much for Nirvana’s success. The songs that made them famous were pretty simple, catchy repetitive pop songs and aesthetics. Of course for simple “normie” music, it’s much better done than what’s on the radio now, especially the deep cuts. Nevermind has Drain You and Territorial Pissings. You can easily show someone who listens to Nirvana and doesn’t just wear the shirt something like Soundgarden’s Jesus Christ Pose and then segway right into industrial music and death metal without a second thought. There’s no way in hell you can do that with what’s on the radio now and expose popular music listeners to a wider variety of music. Kurt admitted Nirvana was almost a 90s Cheap Trick but he got kids to listen to Swans and Celtic Frost.

lyrics? what lyrics?! nobody in the audience or at record labels cares about lyrics! just listen to whats passing on the radio or in the charts.
AI aims at those, so AI is laughing in the face of „yeah but AI will never write creative and deep lyrics“.

My jokes too...
At least I've got this.

What do you call a Blonde who dies their hair Brown?
Artificial Intelligence!

This.

Silverchair was already AI Nirvana.

There's a huge difference is procuring music for underscore vs. source, but that's kind of a different conversation.  

The real edge of the sword is BUSINESS and TECH and how they are colliding with many aspects of society overall, and for our discussion here - how they have collided with music specifically.  

I'd like to add a few REAL WORLD issues that have heated up IMMENSLY in the last few years of writing for media to your steps.....



Step 3A - Hey wouldn't it be even cheaper to just NOT pay someone who wrote ANY song to use their song?  
Answer - yes.

Step 3B - Hey wouldn't it be even cheaper to just NOT pay someone who wrote ANY song to use their song, and take their publishing too so that we can MAKE money instead of spend money?
Answer - YES!!!!

Step 3C - Hey wouldn't it be even cheaper to just NOT pay someone who wrote ANY song to use their song, and take their publishing too - and in addition, demand 50% of the writers - so that we can MAKE EVEN MORE money instead of spend money?
Answer - Oh, HELL YES!!!

Step 3D - Hey wouldn't it be even cheaper and WAY BETTER to just NOT pay someone who wrote ANY song to use their song, and take their publishing too - and in addition, demand 50% of the writers - AND now, ultimately, demand master rights as well so that we can re-market that music elsewhere under our own name / company so that we can MAKE WAY MORE money instead of spend money for what stupid musicians will easily give us for nothing?  
Answer - Oh, HELL YES - WE'RE GENIUS'S!!!




That's been the progression over the last 5 years, an in reality, there's only one more step possible - giving up all ownership - all writers, all publishers and all master rights in perpetuity before hitting up the ultimate wall - the AI thing.

The main benefit of AI right now is that it's pretty much instant, whereas with lowly musicians, you have to wait for them to write and produce it, then you have to convince them that selling their soul just to get something placed is the ultimate goal of their career(s).  Overall, we as musicians are the ultimate fools.  And I guess we deserve what we get, cause we've (as a whole) never looked after business.



And now, AI is just so much easier.  And so pathetic.  Almost as pathetic as those who think that AI will not seriously impede - if not decimate - the music business overall and their creative goals in specific.

I thought I had a plan a few years ago to turn things around for me and facilitate a way to make some decent to excellent money.  Its taken 4+ years to get it off the ground, and just before the final push, AI has reared it's ugly head in such a way that rather than finish off the push, I'm seriously thinking about just flushing the last 4 years of almost full time work.  Seriously frustrating and ultimately depressing, but there's no use throwing good money after bad as they say....  I'd rather spend what time and money I have left to enjoy NOT working.  Riding the motorcycles, exploring with the jeep, spending time with family and friends.

I wish everyone the best, but at this point in the world clock, I can't see spending much time and effort in making music for money.  It's got to be about enjoyment at this point.  The days of making money off music are all but done for any but the top AAA layer of musicians.  The middle class is collapsing.

I need a bourbon