AI like Dall-E is very popular now, but what happens when these artificial artists come to do our work?
Will AI destroy artists' careers?
Automation is putting people out of jobs, from ATMs to washing machines to supermarket cashiers. But those have always been fairly menial tasks. Now the machines are coming for the creative class. A new “human-assisted AI” music-making service called Soundful promises to replace jingle artists, soundtrack makers, and anyone else who makes music on commission. And artists are getting pretty excited about it.
"I see it very much in the same way that AI art […] is overwhelming potentially 'low value' creative output, but I don't really see that as a bad thing. I don't think it's going to lead to fewer artists any more than drum machines are going to lead to fewer drummers. I think it's just broadening the scope of both who can participate in the arts and what it means to be an artist," musician Nate Horn told Lifewire in an Elektronauts forum thread.
Soundful will "generate and download unique, royalty-free tracks at the touch of a button," according to the blurb. You pick a genre, make a few selections, and go. Repeat until you find something you like. Sounds like BigCorp Inc's marketing department is going to be hiring an intern for their jingles from now on, huh? Not necessarily.
