The future of commercial music...?

With the recent admission that an artist (Velvet Sundown) on Spotify with a million+ listens is actually created entirely using AI, there's a great video by Rick Beato (below) that shows just how easy it is for anyone to create... not entirely shit music. He takes you through the few steps (create avatar, create lyrics using one prompt, then create track using those lyrics and another prompt... that's it!)
Worth a watch. Not least because the results aren't exactly awful.

Seems YouTube is demonetising "AI slop", but Spotify have yet to go that route, meaning the creator of Velvet Sundown is presumably getting (albeit a small) payment for what is really just other people's work.


What will this mean for the future of commercial music? Will it result in even more mediocre music on offer? How difficult will it be for artists to break out? Will it soon move to gigging being the future for actual artists to make a living?

Meh.
Let the thread cover anything relating to this, the video, etc.

I may even see if I can get AI to create me some music... and I'll post it here if I do. :)
A.I.(I use ChatGPT) is excellent at creating videos, like short movies and music with song and video, coding is easy using A.I. too, off topic a bit. A.I. is great for creativity.
 
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Well, AI is great at REPLACING creativity.
I watched Nick Cave on the Late Show and he had this exact fear.

I then talked about it with a fried and they said humans need to try harder. I could never get used to A.I. replacing human artists, but maybe I'm old fashioned? Hope not.
 
I would say YouTube channel(musician) will make a lot of money from members of their channel, obviously they get other footage extras for being a member. Thing is, this has started, I support an artist called Ren via Patreon, his music is great to me, so I support him. No record deals and all that mess, he's free to do what he wants, a true artist. Yeah YouTube for the future.
 
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