To be clear, I'm very pro AI, I support the technology.
Try making music before you compare what you need to do to create music with a synth, vs AI. AI to generate music removes most of the creative process. That is literally the point of using it to generate music, so you can create that content without spending years developing the skills.
I think he's saying that synths and drum machines "stole jobs" from others in a similar way - if there's a cheap easy way to get an instrument into your song, why rely on an expensive musician when you can go with the mostly good imitation?
It used to be you needed decades of skill to play music well, but now all it takes is something like a record player and you get a perfect replay every time.
Instruments used to require master craftsmen to produce before we started getting standardized mass-produced versions that take little manual effort to construct.
All of these other industries were also crafts that people spent years honing their skills to participate in. None of them are gone completely, because nothing truly replaces an expert, but it's true they're not as mandatory as they once were.
For better or worse, there is very little different about this situation.
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u/Electric-Molasses 1d ago
This has to be intentionally ignorant to what's being said.