Like many classically trained musicians, I feel ambivalence towards the introduction of AI into the creation of music. It was partly for this reason that I enjoyed Maya Ackerman's nuanced keynote at the AI & Music Creativity conference at Wolfson College, Oxford, this morning. #aimusic #digital-scholarship
@andrewcusworth
Can you summarize some key points for us? I only compose occasionally, but as musician and especially as a music teacher I am very concerned about the future of AI music generation.
@voltronic Just following on from your message, would you be willing to express some of your concerns - I suspect we share some!
@andrewcusworth
Here are a few off the top of my head.
1. Loss of work for composers and arrangers
2. Training AI composition engines using work taken without permission
3. Decline in average composition skills (AI fixes your poor voicing/voice leading, etc.)
4. Further homogenization of film/TV/pop music
5. Declining market standards for subjectively high quality music (public brain drain)
6. Decline of formal composition study (becoming a dead end career)
@voltronic I think one of the challenges is that the concerns around AI cut across different (and differently valued) areas: economy, skills, creativity, human attainment, cultural nuance, quality, and so on. Some of these are already things that are under attack in prevailing culture (the idea that there is 'better quality' music caused me an hour long argument with someone a few months ago). It is indeed troubling.