RikkiTikkaTagem said:
I don't really view this as "AI created". It's just AI enhanced. Nothing we've listened to on these three pages could only have been made by AI.
This is still human created content (the base song lyrics, melody) using other human created content (genres of music) with another human just acting as a producer, who just uses AI to get the sound he wants. It's like being a producer who has access to infinite musicians and infinite vocalists and infinite recording studio time that can be done for a fraction of the time and cost.
Another point. Great songs transcend genres. That's what makes them popular. Most of these super popular songs we loved listening to growing on my sound like a specific genre for one of two reasons.
1. That was the bands "sound"
2. Some producer made it sound a certain way for mass consumption and max profitability that in line with what was popular at the time.
Rarely are these songs written in what I would call their best form. Rarely do the person writing the song, the person arranging the music to the song, the person mixing the song, the musicians actually playing and singing the song, are all the people who make that song sound the best it possibly can. That's why we sometimes love the cover better than the original like Hurt by Johnny Cash or I will always love you by Whitney Houston (they're just examples not trying to start an argument). All of the previous things I mention line up to make a better version of the song. I would say all AI is doing for these songs listed so far is just testing out different variations. Now, literally anybody can do it, so you're doing to see a ton of stuff out there.
It's theft. The AI was trained on a song sung by an artist and it was trained in a vocal sound of a second artist (or the original artist). But that artist isn't being paid for it.
That's the slippery slope here with an AI. Someone taught it to do this. And the teacher didn't get paid.
It's a cover but nobody got paid royalties for the lyrics.
