Originally Posted by John Lawrence Schick
Originally Posted by bennash
Originally Posted by John Lawrence Schick
October was the first month since I started in this business that I didn't see one placement. I used to receive 15-20 placements a month. The last several years it came down to 3-5 placements a month. I imagine soon I'll be lucky to see any placements. Real composers are being buried by AI generated music. I'm thinking maybe this is the end of original music. Depressing. Well, I always told myself, when things slow down, I'll dedicate myself to serious piano works - for my own pleasure. Or send them to a print music publisher like G. Schirmer, Inc. I certainly purchased enough of their manuscripts when I was studying music. They owe me - ha, ha.

John cry


Maybe you can use AI in your tool box , I'm sure the answer is no , But it's business man. Pros say that AI might replace a lot of humans, I guess it's coming to fruition , that kinda sucks. I really don't find it funny , thats your livelihood man. My producer was saying doing sound for a festival that somebody walked up and said robots might replace you . He shrugged and said I doubt it , who knows. one hour show he got 3k . not bad, of course he's real smart , not married on the road a lot , payed for house and studio cash . He'll be in Montana on festivals this month , I caught him yesterday singing a song in his studio


I had a good talk with my publisher today. I wanted to know how AI has affected their business. He said so far, they haven’t noticed much difference. But he said their business was down 50% from the 2023 writer’s strike. He thinks they’ll eventually recover from that. He doesn’t know any music supervisors that are using AI generated tracks – but that may change. He said that AI tracks submissions have increased from 1% to 20%. However, they reject all AI tracks. Said there isn’t anyone that hates AI more than he does. I told him, you just talked with one – ha, ha.

John

John,

Your TALENT will not be replace. A.I. can't do anything original, EVER. However, it CA replace production cost, of say you supplying a new original piano piece versus you also providing your original melody in 20 different instrumental arrangements supported the original composition. So your melody could be used in many marketable genres of instrumental music. You would have singular ownership, but could offer your publishers/placement services 10 or even 100 produced music genres using your original creation. That is the value of A.I. Who loses? No one. Why? Because you do not have the time nor money to pay anyone to do all that. So it is not lost money if it never existed in the first place. Meanwhile, each opportunity for your original composition has not bumped anyone else out, because it is your original work that is being used. It is like you needing to go into some big recording studio with a mic'd up piano to record your piece versus doing it at home. You do no lament the team of people you could never hire to do that for you, nor would you have the time to do it even if you had the money. The tech is not the problem. Everyone has now been given far more equal footing for their ORIGINAL works. A.I. is never going to write original music. Unless random notes sounds good, it can't instinctually know how to write as it has no humanity nor does it think or create, it simply produces a sound quality using the same digital tools inside all those expensive music gear boxes or expensive plug in programs. It is simply a car versus a buggy.

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