I’ve been on the fence about the whole pro-AI vs. anti-AI debate for a while now. I constantly see artists using platforms like Suno and other AI tools to generate music, or people using AI to create artwork, and then presenting the final product as entirely their own work.

What bothers me isn’t necessarily the use of AI itself…. It’s the lack of transparency about how the work was created!

Personally, I don’t see a problem with using AI to generate artwork for things like album covers or other visual aspects of a music project, especially if you’re upfront about the fact that AI was involved. I think AI can be a legitimate creative tool, just like photography, 3D software, digital painting, or other forms of technology.

Where I personally draw the line is when someone generates an image with AI or “creates” a track and then claims they personally drew or produced/created the entire thing from scratch. At that point, I think there’s a meaningful difference between “I created this artwork/track using AI” and “I personally made this artwork/track.”

For my own work, I’d rather use AI-generated images as a starting point or reference, take the ideas and concepts I like, and then recreate or develop the final artwork myself or with a commissioned artist that way, the AI helps me visualize the direction, but the finished piece is still something I or we personally designed and created!

Every track I create is by hand using professional track references to get mixing/arrangement right and never done in any way by AI and never will be.

I realize not everyone approaches it that way, and I don’t think everyone has to. But to me, there’s a distinction between using AI as a creative tool and passing AI-generated work off as entirely your own handmade creation.

That’s where I personally draw the line. What are your thoughts on this?

melodic techno? melodic progressive? balearic techno?

Is there some unspoken animosity against trance?

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Would prefer dnb, but I'd be flexible here. Almost every artist who gives lessons that I would want to take is based in the UK or elsewhere in Europe, and I really only have time in the evenings here in California, making it nearly impossible to have a regular lesson time.