AI Music: The Future or The End of Musicians?

KJ Sawka Short 13 days ago

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AI Prompt Producer fine, its not stopping me
With the rise of AI music prompt platforms, we are seeing a massive surge of AI-generated music flooding the music world, and it's being officially released. It's absolutely wild to watch. Even with all the lawsuits happening, change is here. If I can't adapt, then I'm gonna get run over.
I talk to my students about this all the time. I'm not happy about AI prompt music, not even close. But it's another hurdle in the journey of life and music, and it's largely beyond my control.
With that said, I'm trying to understand the depth of AI music, what it can and can't do, so I'm not hiding under a rock pretending it doesn't exist. The way I've chosen to counter it is by doubling down on my skills. Continuing to build the skills I've spent years learning and developing.
AI learns from existing material. My job as an artist is to keep creating things that are personal, unique, and come from real experience. AI is getting better every day, and there will be millions of people who love AI-generated music. That's just reality. But that's out of my control.
What is in my control is continuing to create music, and creating music with the people I love making music with. Using our skills, our creativity, our mistakes, our happy accidents, and our life experiences to make something that actually means something to us.
So keep learning. Stay in the DAW. Keep producing. Keep drumming. Keep singing. Keep writing songs. Keep putting in the reps. Live music, real musicianship, and genuine human connection still matter, and those are things I'm continuing to bet on.
The lesson for me is simple. Ramp up my studio time. Learn Ableton even deeper. Drum my butt off until my fingers bleed. That's what got me here in the first place.
I'm not stopping.
I'm not going to deny the advancements happening in AI, and I'm not pretending they don't exist. But I'm also not going to let them distract me from my non-negotiables, drumming, producing my ass off, and continuing to become a better musician every single day.