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MusicLM: Generating Music from Text

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Re: MusicLM: Generating Music from Text

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This is unbelievable. I would have never expected AI to take the jobs of creatives first, but here we are. Artists and musicians can create much better work than AI, but the AI creates consistent works usable for people who aren’t artists, and need assets for their projects — whether video games, prototyping, storyboarding, etc. It is going to be interesting to see artists revert to being a no-revenue passion again i…

> "...At the same time, a part of me feels art has no place being motivated by money anyway. Perhaps this change will restore the balance. Artists will need to get real jobs again like the rest of us and fund their art as a side project..." I seems to be missed on your comment, the AI will take on the real job first. The real job you were planning to reserve as survival means for the artist... are we not all now, cre…

"It's a cook book!" hasn't yet entered the Overton window.

Re: MusicLM: Generating Music from Text

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This is unbelievable. I would have never expected AI to take the jobs of creatives first, but here we are. Artists and musicians can create much better work than AI, but the AI creates consistent works usable for people who aren’t artists, and need assets for their projects — whether video games, prototyping, storyboarding, etc. It is going to be interesting to see artists revert to being a no-revenue passion again i…

> Artists will need to get real jobs again like the rest of us and fund their art as a side project.

You said you were surprised that the creative jobs are being automated first. Are you expecting the "real jobs" to also be automated, then?

Re: MusicLM: Generating Music from Text

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This is unbelievable. I would have never expected AI to take the jobs of creatives first, but here we are. Artists and musicians can create much better work than AI, but the AI creates consistent works usable for people who aren’t artists, and need assets for their projects — whether video games, prototyping, storyboarding, etc. It is going to be interesting to see artists revert to being a no-revenue passion again i…

I listened to some of the longer "story mode" samples on that page and I'm impressed by how bad it is. I feel like I am owed some monetary compensation for my trouble.

If aliens came here and someone told them this was our music, they'd be justified in destroying the planet to make way for an interstellar bypass.

Re: MusicLM: Generating Music from Text

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This is unbelievable. I would have never expected AI to take the jobs of creatives first, but here we are. Artists and musicians can create much better work than AI, but the AI creates consistent works usable for people who aren’t artists, and need assets for their projects — whether video games, prototyping, storyboarding, etc. It is going to be interesting to see artists revert to being a no-revenue passion again i…

>Artists will need to get real jobs again like the rest of us. How disrespectful is this for professional artists?

>instead of being well compensated. Hello? What % of pro artists are "well compensated"?

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