I don’t think most people do find it frustrating to “make music”. What people struggle with—and this connects to some broader discussions about generative AI I’ve had in another place—is becoming an expert in a skill and living up to conventional standards of producing “great works”.
I don’t think it is this. Obviously I cannot say for sure where this sociopath is coming (him being a sociopath and all) from but since he is in the business of peddling AI music I am somewhat confident what I am about to say is pertinent.
Recently there has been a lot of scrutiny of Spotify for promoting ghost artists. Ghost artists are fake artists that some companies create to credit contract-produced music to. These are the kind of tracks that they qualify as background music–lofi and similar stuff. These companies hire freelance musicians to make this music for them. They pay the musicians upfront and keep the royalty that they receive from Spotify. Spotify also has to pay them less royalty than actually existing artists so Spotify wins from this too.
The journalistic coverage of this topic heavily featured anecdotes from the musicians where they said that they did not enjoy making this kind of music since there is little room for creativity. It is just elevator music.
I feel this is what this sociopath is talking about when he says people don’t enjoy making music. He is probably eyeing streaming fees, royalties etc. whatever these ghouls are trying to make money off these days.
Fair points. I think my mind was going more in a direction of how a regular person might engage with AI. But this seems like a solid analysis of what they’re gunning for and talking about on a business level.
I don’t think it is this. Obviously I cannot say for sure where this sociopath is coming (him being a sociopath and all) from but since he is in the business of peddling AI music I am somewhat confident what I am about to say is pertinent.
Recently there has been a lot of scrutiny of Spotify for promoting ghost artists. Ghost artists are fake artists that some companies create to credit contract-produced music to. These are the kind of tracks that they qualify as background music–lofi and similar stuff. These companies hire freelance musicians to make this music for them. They pay the musicians upfront and keep the royalty that they receive from Spotify. Spotify also has to pay them less royalty than actually existing artists so Spotify wins from this too.
The journalistic coverage of this topic heavily featured anecdotes from the musicians where they said that they did not enjoy making this kind of music since there is little room for creativity. It is just elevator music.
I feel this is what this sociopath is talking about when he says people don’t enjoy making music. He is probably eyeing streaming fees, royalties etc. whatever these ghouls are trying to make money off these days.
Fair points. I think my mind was going more in a direction of how a regular person might engage with AI. But this seems like a solid analysis of what they’re gunning for and talking about on a business level.