Originally Posted by Fdemetrio
[quote=Rob B.]
I think the shift has and will go to live, because the world is so ai aware, they'll want to see what's real and what isn't.

This is the part I really don't understand, Dom.
You say, “the world is so AI aware, they'll want to see what's real and what isn't,” and that you think the shift will be toward live music.
But how would a live performance tell anyone what's “real”?

A musician can use AI to write the lyrics, melody, chords and arrangement, have AI produce the entire recording, and then walk on stage and perform the song live. The audience would see a real person singing and playing a real instrument, but they still wouldn't know which parts of the song were created by the person and which parts came from AI.

And it works the other way around too. Someone can write every word and every note themselves and use AI to create the demo. A live performance doesn't prove that they wrote the song any more than an AI recording proves that they didn't.

So I don't see how live performance establishes what's “real” and what isn't. It can prove that someone is capable of performing, sure. But it can't prove who actually created the song.

That's why I questioned your original statement. I think you're mixing up three different things: songwriter, performer, and creator. AI makes those distinctions more complicated, not less.