We already seen a lot of AI generated art recently. But these were just pictures. What about AI generated music? There are substantial differences between music and pictures:
- For artistic pictures there is no pop. They do not have nearly the same popularity as music.
- Music follows changing fashions and even progress of some sort. Each time period (e.g. decade) comes with distinctive music styles, and while there are some revivals, usually they do not repeat. Artistic pictures are much more static in comparison, at least in the last few decades. Pictures are influenced by available tools (e.g. Photoshop and graphic tablets), but a painting today doesn't look markedly different from a painting 30 years ago.
Since music follows fashions, just imitating past music genres may not be as popular as it is popular to imitate existing art styles with Stable Diffusion and Midjourney. But imitation is exactly what current generative models do. Which may ultimately limit the popularity of fully AI generated songs created by amateurs. Musicians may still have an edge by using AI tools to create new music styles.
- For artistic pictures there is no pop. They do not have nearly the same popularity as music.
- Music follows changing fashions and even progress of some sort. Each time period (e.g. decade) comes with distinctive music styles, and while there are some revivals, usually they do not repeat. Artistic pictures are much more static in comparison, at least in the last few decades. Pictures are influenced by available tools (e.g. Photoshop and graphic tablets), but a painting today doesn't look markedly different from a painting 30 years ago.
Since music follows fashions, just imitating past music genres may not be as popular as it is popular to imitate existing art styles with Stable Diffusion and Midjourney. But imitation is exactly what current generative models do. Which may ultimately limit the popularity of fully AI generated songs created by amateurs. Musicians may still have an edge by using AI tools to create new music styles.