Yes. Absolutely. But I think there's a pretty big difference between using
AI to make music and having AI make your music for you.
I write every lyric on this site. I write the melodies and come up with the
concepts, characters, jokes, stories, and genres. Sometimes I'll literally
record myself singing the melody I hear in my head and use that recording as
the starting point. Then I'll experiment with transforming the performance
into the voice, genre, and production I'm imagining.
And the production is anything but plug-and-play. I spend a ridiculous
amount of time listening, tweaking, regenerating, exporting, comparing
versions, and trying again. Sometimes I'll make dozens of exports before I'm
happy with one. Sometimes I'll take the result into a DAW and edit it myself.
There is a lot of creative energy behind these songs. The reason I use AI is
pretty simple: I'm one person, and I'm not rich.
If I wanted to make these songs traditionally, I'd need different musicians,
different vocalists, different producers, different studios, and different
budgets for basically every genre I want to explore. Making a reggae song, a
hip hop song, a jazz song, and a rock song would mean assembling four
completely different production teams. I couldn't afford that. For most of my
life, that meant I simply didn't make the music. AI removed that barrier.
I understand why musicians feel threatened by AI. I really do. But I also
think the conversation gets flattened into “AI bad” when there are
legitimate, creative uses that have nothing to do with replacing an artist.
For me, AI isn't replacing the part of music I'm good at. It's giving that
part of me somewhere to go. These are songs I've wanted to make for years.
Now I finally can.
—Kat
$3.02
Fluffanuttah
