No paywall: https://archive.is/0oXu5

One of my submarines is human-performed AI-written songs. They have all of the "soul" of human made songs, but you can mass produce them with session musicians. The arbitrage on human discernment and emotional appeal is surprisingly easy to exploit.

I've had a lot of fun taking some of my older songs and using AI to create covers of them. This was a song I wrote for the piano over a decade ago.

Original for piano https://youtu.be/c3nPpzzC83U

Orchestral Cover (GenAI) https://youtu.be/5r3sN2YNEGs

Instantly being able to hear a song performed with an alternate orchestration (even if it is rather mechanical) is still a lot of fun and could lead to some interesting experimentation.

Unfortunately, using it as a collaborative tool is probably NOT going to be the predominant way that it is used by a mainstream audience. Instead it will be used to generate the chord progression, the lyrics, the melody, the structure, and the performance - and then hurled into the world in a deluge of pure AI generated noise.