To me, music (and art) is a form of person-to-person expression. I have played music, and that experience is an awesome connection with the composer. I can imagine the composer playing the same very notes (better, of course), and that auditory, tactile and visual experience transports me into the composer's life.
Most striking was when the power went out in the Bay, and I played by candlelight, like those old-timers did.
Things that can be tolerated or even enjoyed superficially are, well, superficial. Bach was accused of being "mental", even algorithmic, but he had some very powerful self-expression in his works. And let's not talk 12-tone. That's just tightly constrained, which in engineering can lead to breakthroughs, but I can't comment on how that plays out in music. I just don't have the experience to say.
All art is creativity expressed under constraints.
I think it's fun for the lulz when a friend gets some in-group song "made" for a joke. But I don't think aigen will ever dominate a creative sphere. It can't extrapolate to create something entirely new. It can only interpolate to create something within the realm it has training on. It relies on creativity "top ups" via training on non-aigen content to even remain remotely relevant.
Ultimately, music is about the final output. Whether the creator is a human with a guitar or an algorithm on a GPU is less important to me than the feeling the track evokes
“[...] as always, I am absorbed with a delicate thought. It is how poetry has indefinite sensations to which end, music is an essential, since the comprehension of sweet sound is our most indefinite conception. Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry. Music without the idea is simply music. Without music or an intriguing idea, color becomes pallour, man becomes carcass, home becomes catacomb, and the dead are but for a moment motionless.” ― Edgar Allan Poe
andrecarini•3mo ago
Personally, I think it's still uncanny similar to these AI image gens with multiple hands and nonsense details in the background. You can one-shot a lot of passable stuff but the moment you want to put more effort into it (e.g. correct a word or two, slightly change the style of a section) the track gets really messy very fast.