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Anyone else using ChatGPT to make music? (2023)

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Re: Anyone else using ChatGPT to make music? (2023)

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Post by amanaplanacanal »

alchemist1e9 wrote: post #8
CharlesW wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

AI should do tedious stuff for artistic people. Instead it’s doing artistic stuff for tedious people.

As a non-artist sometimes I find artists somewhat tedious, they all seem to pretend they are doing something unique and creative yet it doesn’t look particularly interesting or different to me, instead more tedious.

I think you are coming at it from a different direction than the artist. You want them to create something for you to consume, and the value is whether you enjoy it. The artist is scratching their personal itch, and the value is them enjoying the creation process.

Re: Anyone else using ChatGPT to make music? (2023)

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Post by alchemist1e9 »

CharlesW wrote: post #10
alchemist1e9 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a non-artist sometimes I find artists somewhat tedious, they all seem to pretend they are doing something unique and creative yet it doesn’t look particularly interesting or different to me, instead more tedious.

You’re a creative professional with deep domain expertise, yes? If you don’t mind sharing what you do, I think I can make the point in a way that will resonate more for you.

I’m a software engineer and also a quantitative researcher/analyst.

Re: Anyone else using ChatGPT to make music? (2023)

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Post by vunderba »

CharlesW wrote: post #5
giraffe_lady wrote: post #4

Why would I possibly do that? I would no more do this than use an AI to listen to music for me. What's next I get an AI to have sex for me, to watch the sunset so I can focus on work?

AI should do tedious stuff for artistic people. Instead it’s doing artistic stuff for tedious people.

Reminds me of that viral piece a year ago about a guy who wrote a book for his daughter. And by "write a book" I mean he used ChatGPT to come up with the story, Stable Diffusion to generate the pictures, and a vanity press to print it.

https://youtu.be/QKZNOnLUBmQ

Re: Anyone else using ChatGPT to make music? (2023)

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Post by alchemist1e9 »

amanaplanacanal wrote: post #11
alchemist1e9 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a non-artist sometimes I find artists somewhat tedious, they all seem to pretend they are doing something unique and creative yet it doesn’t look particularly interesting or different to me, instead more tedious.

I think you are coming at it from a different direction than the artist. You want them to create something for you to consume, and the value is whether you enjoy it. The artist is scratching their personal itch, and the value is them enjoying the creation process.

In that case AI wouldn’t bother any of them then.

Re: Anyone else using ChatGPT to make music? (2023)

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Post by block_dagger »

I use ChatGPT to help me understand and use popular music software as well as some music theory questions, but I don't use it to generate actual melodies. I use it in a similar way for creative writing - analysis, synopses, ideas, but not for generating actual narrative text.
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