I'm Fine Part Two and Final

@porwest Wow, that's crazy! Which makes me wonder, if AI is that good at producing music, what's going to happen to all the musicians and singers out there? Are they going to be out of jobs because AI can make better music?

@moffittjc I don't think so, and here's why. I think many musicians will use this new tool (the "cover" ability) to aid in the process more than use it to replace the creative process altogether. Granted, it depends on who is using the tools. Take a guy like me, who is someone who is NOT a professional "artist," but just someone who wants to make music. I hear a song in my head one way, and I do my best to recreate that when I press record, or when I try to hash out all the "details," but of course, as I mentioned, I don't have all the "real" tools available to me. The bass player who says, "Let's do the bass line this way." The drummer who says, "Here's the beat I hear for this." The person behind the glass in the studio who says, "Let's do another chorus here or how about we add a bridge after this part." Or a lead guitarist who adds his own flavor when I was good at the rhythm part but maybe didn't have a better idea for the lead lines. People, humans still have heart and passion. For the masses, or say, just the average person, AI IS the source of their "imagination." But for others, their imagination is already there and something like AI can be something that aids in bringing the imagined thing into a more polished reality, if that makes sense. I did not dive into this AI thing on the music side to create music for me. I dove in, when it became possible recently, to make my music into something I cannot. A full-on studio recording, for example. Something I just don't possess the skills for from my desktop. And being that the music is my focus, and so is the originality, I don't WANT AI to replace ME, as the creator. I want it, instead, to be an extension of my vision, which I think is what this AI version of my original song accomplished, even if it wasn't me who added in the unique bass line or drum pattern, or decided a synth part should go here, or a harmony should go there. It IS bit interesting to me that when I recorded the demo, I KNEW then that IF I did an actual recording, I'd have put more "drive" on the chorus vocals. When I did the demo, I was just laying down the "foundations," but it seems AI picked up on my "intuition" that the chorus SHOULD punch more and went ahead and did that. People will use this technology in numerous ways. But I still think that talent and individuality are things that ALWAYS stand out and always will, and we'll be able to tell the difference, no matter how good AI gets, what's real and what's just a comingled compilation of all the imagination that it was taught to do what it does when no one is inputting anything other than a simple written prompt with nothing substantive behind it. Like an original thought made into an original recording that is analyzed and regurgitated in a different way, but it still original at its core.

It is all AI that is based on the original audio file I uploaded for it to interpret and analyze, so it's in the same tuning and key, the chord progression is the same, and I input the lyrics for it to sing to. But it analyzed the way I sung the verses and chorus as well and that's what it spit out which is, structurally, the same song, just studio quality. But none of it is me other than I wrote the song. I did not perform at all in the AI version.

This is where I was, mainly, when AI started to enter into the music world. It just spit things out on command based on prompts, but there was no creative process behind what was being generated. Based on the fact that this song that AI generated, is based off my original track demo, and the inputs I entered such as the lyrics, and that it interpreted everything essentially the same from the chord progression to the way the lyrics were phrased... It's my song through and through that I wrote and that AI didn't make up. But at the same time, I do know some people might pass this off and say it's NOT AI, which I think is wrong to do. State it clearly. Yeah, I wrote it. The song is mine. But I did not personally perform on it in any way. AI is a bit of a weird thing for me anymore. On the one hand I think it can be dangerous and quite scary. On the other hand, it can change a process for a guy like me who just wants to write my own songs and let AI help me out to figure out how best to do the other parts, like...the drums. I am not a drummer. So, I don't know all the right places best for a drum fill and so on and so forth. I program the drums into my drum software, but this takes hours and doesn't necessarily have the input or feel from a guy who actually knows how to play drums. I write songs, I play guitar, I do my best to sing, I can play bass. But AI is letting me see my song in an entirely different way, which I suppose, if I decided to turn the demo into a full recording, I have a few more ideas AI built around the song to make a better track if I decided to do that. In that way I think AI can be good. But if there's nothing from a real human with a little imagination behind it... It's going to chuck out a lot of garbage.

@porwest Wish I had the talent or maybe it is the fortitude to learn an instrument, I love watching people play and I love music well all but opera. Your right it is yours just some parts fine tuned. Still not sure what I think about all the AI stuff happening though.

@Ithink I had an interest in music and creative things at a very early age. I think some people are just born with a proclivity towards something. For some people it's woodworking, for others it's painting, or gardening. There might have been a time I dreamed of becoming a rock star, but of course that never happened. Early on technology did allow me to do many things musically. For example, instead of using a dual cassette deck to make multiple tracks of something, I could eventually use a DAW on my computer which offered me a complete virtual studio. And then we had the ability to publish what we did. A lot has changed. AI seems to be an extension of that, and it's only going to become more integrated into everyday life much like the Internet has. I'm doing my best to use the technology "responsibly," and not allow it to ruin my personal creative journey, but rather to enhance it and open up new doors with it. For example, I have had a bit of a new spark to create new music. But instead of typing in a few commands, I am actually picking up my guitar and laying down a few tracks to work with, and I won't feed anything into AI until I at least have a completed demo of what I want AI to produce for me. I don't want to replace the creative process, in other words. I want to use AI to add an additional step along the way I can't get to, like producing a full on studio version of something I have created.

@porwest Good luck and enjoy! We will be eager to hear what you come up with.

The thing that interests me the most is that it's not something that AI just made up on its own, but a song I actually wrote the music and lyrics to, that it simply regurgitated in a "studio quality" way. I wasn't interested in AI for music before it was able to do this. Being a guy who doesn't have a full band behind me or a six figure recording studio, AND the fact that I am a hobbyist... I'm intrigued. I will be working on a few new projects, so it's also gotten some of my creative juices flowing again.