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Important Takeaways
- Soundful is a new artificial intelligence music platform that composes songs for you.
- AI is simply another tool that artists will employ to develop new mediums.
- Legally, the waters of AI are muddy.
AI like Dall-E are popular right now, but what happens when these robots take our jobs?
From ATMs to washing machines to grocery cashiers, automation eliminates jobs. But those have always been minor duties. The machines are now making their way to the creative classes. Soundful, a new “human-assisted AI” music-creation business, promises to replace jingle writers, soundtrack composers, and anybody else who generates commissioned music. And musicians are quite enthused about it.
“I see it as AI art potentially steamrolling ‘low value’ creative output—but I don’t think this is necessarily a bad thing.”
I don’t believe it will lead to fewer artists in the same way that drum machines lead to fewer drummers.
“I think it just broadens the scope of who can participate in the art and what it means to be an artist,” musician Nate Horn said in an Elektronauts forum discussion to Lifewire.
Soundful
According to the description, Soundful will “generate and download unique, royalty-free tracks at the click of a button.” You select a genre, make a few selections, and then go.
Continue until you find something you enjoy. BigCorp Inc’s marketing department, it appears, will be entrusting their ad jingles to an intern from now on, correct?
Not at all.
Even if AIs such as Soundful and DALL-E consume some low-level creative work, they will also create new jobs in other locations.
Portrait painters, for example, were rendered useless by the camera, but we received a completely new artistic medium in return.
I believe it simply broadens the spectrum of who may participate in art and what it means to be an artist.
Contrary to popular belief, the introduction of ATMs resulted in the creation of more jobs because banks were able to focus on expanding their business rather than having the majority of their workforce focused solely on deposits and withdrawals and providing a more personalised service on the things that really matter,” musician and applied economics master Ramiro Somosierra told Lifewire via email.
And, if you’ve ever worked on commissioned music or magazine artwork, you’ll know that there’s not much room for innovation.
I was trained as an illustrator and performed some book work years ago. And, while it may sound like a lovely way to make a life, it wasn’t.
You’re given a strict brief, which they obviously change multiple times, and there’s almost little room for personal interpretation.
It’s a job, and you supply a service and a product,” stated musician and skilled illustrator monz0id in an electronic music forum thread.
Just Another Tool
The truth is, Soundfuls’ process sounds eerily similar to how musicians already work. Even if you’re a master pianist, you’ll muck around on the keys until something catches your ear, and then you’ll elaborate on that notion.
Musicians already utilise generative tools to generate melodies, chord progressions, and other ideas, and then choose the best ones.
AIs such as Soundful could also be useful for jingle writers and commission-based musicians.
Given how fast-paced the music industry’s back end is, this could reduce the time between deadlines.” Ryan Mina, alias MIIINASAN, an EDM producer, told Lifewire via email.
Legal
The main issue with AI, at least in terms of creativity, is that it’s a legal minefield.
AIs like as Dall-E and MidJourney are trained on existing photos, many of which are protected by intellectual property. Who knows where this will lead when AI-generated visuals and music become popular.
Where algorithmic’music’ crosses the line from homage to intellectual property infringement, attorneys will intervene.
suit both the musicians and the developers of the programme that does the dirty deed,”
Aron Solomon, Esquire Digital’s head of strategy and chief legal analyst, confirmed the news to Lifewire via email.
If you were to utilise DALLE to commercialise a work of your art that resembled Edvard Munch’s Silent Scream,
You’d be in big danger. So, when you use Soundful to make a jingle that sounds like the Meow Mix song,
And, ironically, Soundful appears to be well aware of the concerns.
The disadvantage is that Soundful retains ownership of each generated track unless you purchase it.”
Lifewire received an email from percussionist Nick Cesarz.
