Comments by "Jasper Mooren" (@jaspermooren5883) on "How AI will slowly destroy the music business" video.

@RaptureMusicOfficial where do you work where that's the case? Most people work way less nowadays. At least in the Netherlands average working hours are down to about 30 hours a week right now. You need to do less to get the same stuff done after all.
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That's because it mostly is actually. You need insane amounts of data to train AI, so compression is increadibly common in training sets. And if you train it on compression artifacts, you're going to get compression artifacts as a result.
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What's the problem with that? If people like it they like it. There's no reason to assume that one is somehow better than the other, all art is subjective anyway. I do think though that in-the-flesh musicians will always remain a thing, simply because human connection is very important to us. Why do people pay so much more money to go to a concert rather than just buy an album (or stream it effectively for free)? Vehicles have been faster than humans for a very long time, still the 100m dash at the olympics gathers stadiums full of crowds. People still care about human connection and human achievement and I don't think live music will ever die for that reason alone, it's how musicians made money for 1000s of years, and I don't see a reason that it will stop. AI music will just add to it and create more ways for music to be produced and consumed. I don't see the problem.
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@mttscz No, it won't. People care about the humanity of something. Why is a printout that is an absolutely perfect recreation of the Mona Lisa still far less valuable? Because it has lost it's story, it's now just a fake. People want to see humans perform live music not robots. Background music will probably die, and cheap films and later maybe even high budget films will get AI music as well. But when humans want to experience art, they will still always be attracted by the work of humans. The human factor is and always has been far more important than the actual content of the work ever was. When we realise something is fake, we loose are emotional attachement to it, and what is art but emotional attachement?
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What you call sad, I call exiting. This might be the biggest revolution in music since the advent or recorded music. I'm interested to see where it goes, it's just a toolbox to use after all.
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@saml.kurono9431 I don't believe that for a second. People still want art made by humans. Maybe not all the time, but no one is going to an AI concert other than for the novelty of it.
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I don't see why were fucked when we now have to do less work for the same value? If less work is bad for you maybe need to think about the way the economy works, not technology.
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It's not that far in the past. It's barely more than 100 years ago, recorded music is a suprisingly recent phenomenon. And electricly amplified music is an even more recent invention.
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@automachinehead The idea of making money of records was a fleeting concept anyway. As soon as something is mass producable on that scale it looses its value. Musicians have made money by performing live for millenia, and that's how it should be imho. It's kinda rediculous that people are making money with making an album and then milking it for decades. Live music is where the money is at for the vast majority of musicians, and where it always has been outside of a small blimp in time that is the 20th century and a bit of the 21st.
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Problem is that it's way easier to make art with AI than do the dishes. Art is just taking what already exists and restructuring it in new ways to create new ideas. That's way easier for computers to do. Although arguably we already have machines that do the dishes and the laundry. A dishwasher and washing machine have existed for quite a while now. Compared to 100 years ago, it's almost 0 effort. But that last few percentage of effort is very hard to get rid off. In the same way that we are going to automate the accountant away way earlier than the electrician, the latter actually has a far harder job to automate.
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Eh, acoustic music never went anywhere? It's still very prevailent basically everywhere in the world.
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Well aparently it isn't. But people still care about it, so human artists will always remain, because people want to do it, and because people care more about other people than they care about the art anyway. Live music will never die for that reason alone.
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