Originally Posted by JAPOV
Originally Posted by Brian Austin Whitney
In the next 20 years, there will be lots of demand for people rooted in the former music industry. After that transition, so much new technology will be in existence, it is impossible to even guess all the possible new ways to make money from talent. But people with talent will ALWAYS have an advantage in any marketplace. The key is for musicians to embrace and use these new technologies and run circles over their less experienced competitors.

Am I just paranoid?

There's a major difference between a multi-track synthesizer workstation, and a computer that can de-compile and re-sample anything you throw at it.
When I consider how this "AI tech" was initially developed (by sampling millions of human produced recordings), I question the logic of helping AI to improve and evolve.

If you use AI, aren't you giving a "super-computer" permission to analyze your intellectual property, then re-process it?

And,

Once you use AI, doesn't the developer of that tech OWN YOU?
Aren't you giving AI permission to re-use YOUR intellectual property?

I'm not just arguing for argument's sake here, Bryan...
Why do musicians/composers work so hard to be unique and original?

The legal goundwork has now decided that ANY public facing music can be used, without compensation, to train A.I. just like humans. The battle was ALWAYS going to go this way, I have been writing about it for DECADES in the newsletter and all around here and elsewhere. Those who trained the A.I. have ZERO representation in any of this. It has been taken, as it always has, but the same gatekeepers who keep worthy music off charts, outside of commercial relevance and groveling for scraps or less. Using the tech is the ONLY benefit artists will ever get. Avoiding it will only further punish you. Your music, if you post it or sell it, once in "public" is 100% used by them. You can't stop it. If you can spend MILLIONS of dollars litigating, you might (might!) get a pittance reward, but most likely will just be out millions. These companies have billions to do whatever they want in the halls of power. So if you ever posted a lyric online, it has already been used by A.I. If you ever posted music online, it is already theirs to use. You can't stop it unless you hoard it to yourself. But where does THAT get you? 99.9999999% of music created is never heard by anyone beyond the creators inner circle. Your music, whether you like it or not, is in that majority, just like mine So, you can use the tech to boost your productivity and create MORE art for yourself (the #1 benefactor of music creation in all circumstances) or you can keep banging your head into the limitations of NOT using it and the result will be the same, the same small or non existent audience will hear it and A.I. will still be one of those audience members if it is EVER poster publicly on ANY site. And you will NEVER be compensated for it.

Brian Austin Whitney
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