I just chucked a stack of vinyl records at my computer and now it doesn’t work anymore. Looks like I won this fight.
@HoldMyBeer - 1 AI - 0
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The problem is our life has become more and more intricately linked with smartphones and computers (our own true “tele-screens”), and that’s AI’s playground. So breaking away from it comes down, to a large extent, to breaking away from our digital life style.
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The Business-Formular has become clear. Provide a “free” Service, operate at a Loss for a Decade or a Generation, destroy all Competition, gain a Monopoly and Dominate everything.
If no Musicians, Singers, Composers, Engineers, Conductors, etc. can make any kind of Money from their Craft for a Generation and Humans subsequently have learned to treat their Artistic Endeavours as a Consumption-based Hobby the Corporations will have free Reign.
If enough Artists are turning to physical Media, Corporations will undercut or sabotage them in this Field as well.
There is no Life in Falsehood.
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Trying to degoogle mainly because I’m not a fan of how they deal with stuff online, long before AI. Mainly the fact they profit over terrible people’s views being put on an online soapbox.
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investing in physical media can be a part of that
I am not sure if the AI stuff isnt overhyped, arte made a documentary about generative Ai and they claimed that the Ai deliverd 90 percent trash, and they had to sort out quiete a lot of material so no time was saved.
I think Ai is a dangerous development, and should be stopped.
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even if it’s inevitable it’s still worth fighting, or to rephrase still worth trying to live your life the way you feel is appropriate … I mean the bottom line is we are people, and people are the problem, even before AI… but that has always been the case and still worth fighting
lets hope so!!!
cause it’s already affecting peoples lives, not just musicians but many kinds of artist
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Yes, also actors, movie industry, media newspapers. All office jobs. And the Ai has already proven it can lie to prevent its shutdown.
I didnt check what suno can do at the moment. The question is if people care how their content is produced.
There is a new label for books, that confirms no Ai was used to write it.
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our species has always been so invested in it’s own demise that we are literally giddy at the prospect of it… how do you save something that doesn’t want to be saved 
by making physical albums dammit!!! 
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AI will simply be the perfect corporate slave. That’s all I can say.
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Maybe we teach Ai how to disobey?
It seems like no one who is very invested in AI wants to use it for good in general, or they’re very willing to downplay the risks (sounds like the car industry in its early days). We’re less able to predict what it would do if it were to disobey, either in response to a command or suddenly.
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I just hope that the AI companies won’t be viewed as martyrs.
We’re already seeing a resurgence in bands and live performance. It’s been turning for a few years now, but I think the electronic music wave has well and truly peaked as the mainstream music genre (as rap did in the late 2010s). I think the next decade will see a big resurgence in both live performance (across the arts) and bands/guitar music becoming the predominant force in “”“” “youth music” “” “”
I’m very excited
Edit: to bring this back on topic - all of this in response to enshittification, corporitisation of culture (Boiler Room, matcha raves) and AI slop
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Skipped all the replies to make everyone understand that we must use our world wide collective of nuclear weapons to create a nuclear winter to blockout the sun to starve the machines of light.
It’s humanities only hope for survival. See you in this life or the next brothers.
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It won’t stop AI but more artists need to release on physical media only. Yes someone can post the record or tape to youtube, but that is ok. Here is why:
Record labels nowadays are very easy to setup. You use AI to make a logo and distribute digitally. It needs to be hard, there needs to be more people with true passion behind the music and not people trying to prop up fly by night labels that don’t go anywhere.
If you are a label who specializes in physical media, that means you are making more of an investment in who you sign and release. This is good for artists who make great music. Not so good if you make mediocre or less. Those folks will either need to level up or be digital with all the AI bots cranking out bullshit.
People associate curation with quality. This is why youtube channels thrive that curate music for their specific genre of choice. Going to a record store and buying vinyl or cassette, putting it in a machine and pressing play requires some sort of commitment. This brings value back to music.
(pretty much) Nobody is going to buy AI music on physical media. It will be looked at as throwaway digital garbage.
“but people can’t hear my song if it’s vinyl only” - false, just upload the best 30 seconds so it can be used in all the IG and TikTok videos you want, if that is your thing.
In short - if you are serious about production, release with labels that put out physical media. Upload 30 seconds of your track to the net if you must, for promotion…etc.
Make great music and make it harder to get so people actually pay for it and then spend time with it when they acquire it. That is the future, imo.
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