Let's get this out of the way right up top – A.I. "music" isn't music. It's slop given to the uncreatives of the world by corporations whose only real goal is to make money. And if that comes at the expense of destroying art, then whatever – the shareholders are happy folks and all's right in the world of the worst people you know.
In a recent interview with El Jevilongo, Lacuna Coil vocalist Cristina Scabbia had a similar viewpoint: "I hate music made with A.I. I understand that A.I. is the way because I can deny the progress. I understand that we are a little pissed, especially creative people, especially artists and painters and people who create posters for shows, all the graphic designers are really pissed, photographers and also singers and musicians because I think for music, it should start from platforms.
"I understand the business point, but platforms like Spotify, at least they should say no to A.I. artists because that's not real music. I mean, they are [streaming] music from a real artist already. They should be the ones to say, like, 'We don't accept A.I. musicians.' And also people should be aware that those are just creations from computers with no souls in it. Some people don't even realize it. I've seen many, many videos of people just singing over these bands that are not even existing."
Unfortunately, A.I. music is getting pretty good at what it does. Deezer and Ipsos recently conducted a study across eight countries and 9,000 people exploring if they could tell the difference between music that's A.I. generated or made by an actual person.
The results were painful: "Initially, all participants were asked to listen to three tracks and determine whether or not they were fully AI-generated – 97% of the respondents failed. A majority (71%) of the respondents were surprised by these results and more than half (52%) felt uncomfortable by not being able to tell the difference."
Scabbia also brought up how A.I. music is kust a business made by people who don't care about music, adding: "Well, I don't think it's a problem for whoever is using it, creating music, because I think that they're not really interested in music and they just do it for the business.
"Because if you're a real musician, you would take your time to write your music and maybe use the help of electronic things to improve your creativity or to make it faster, but A.I., it's something like in which you're not doing anything, pretty much. I mean, I don't understand why they call themselves artists, because you can't really be an artist just like typing, 'Make a song that sounds like Lacuna Coil.' That's not creating something; that's just like cheating big time."
