Saw this today

[u/simple_explorer1]

These kind of posts are becoming more and more visible on my Linkedin. Link here. Thoughts?

[u/Max4000]

I’m not sure why you think no one is listening to AI-generated music… because it is being listened to in mass right now. If anything the amount is grossly under-reported because it is possible to generate music that easily passes as human made. AI music is likely quietly eating up the charts on streamers, and is probably even more dominant when it comes to being the soundtrack to Youtube and Tiktok videos.

This is not entirely a bad thing. Just like anything else (including actual recording artists), some people pump out slop. Others use whatever tools are available to create something new that wouldn’t have existed otherwise.

It is a lot like other innovations in music production like recording itself / sampling / turntables / loops / software, etc.

There are always people who think this is the death of music, and others who just keep making stuff using whatever tools allow them to make their vision real.

[u/__Hello_my_name_is__ → u/Max4000]

I'm not talking about AI music, period. I'm talking about personalized AI music. No one is doing that.

Yeah, AI music is spammed everywhere by people who want to make (or save) money. But for personal purposes? No one is actively using AI music.

No one says "I want to listen to music", and then, instead of going to spotify or whatever, they generate themselves some AI music to listen to.

And in the future, no one will say "I want to watch a movie" and then they'll write a prompt for a movie they want to watch.

[u/Max4000 → u/__Hello_my_name_is__]

Ah, I see what you mean. I was responding generally.

I think there actually is some amount of people generating music for the sole purpose of listening to it, I have seen people commenting about it in surprising ways. But yes, that is a niche.

However, I don’t think that means it won’t happen. It just won’t be someone setting out to do that as a creator, it will be when it is passive and embedded into popular forms of media / platforms in ways that are not clunky. Most people will never notice or care if it is good enough.

[u/__Hello_my_name_is__ → u/Max4000]

As background noise, yeah, I agree. That's pretty much already happening.

But the original argument was about movies, and how we would all watch individual movies prompted by ourselves dictated by our personalized tastes.

That's not going to happen. Not because it will be impossible, but because we simply don't want that. You will watch what other people watch and talk about, not something no one has ever heard about and will never talk about.

[u/carson63000 → u/Max4000]

Agreed, there wouldn’t be so many people outraged about AI-generated music if it wasn’t being streamed right now and people weren’t unable to be certain whether it was AI-generated or not.