JermaineDupri weighs in on the conversation around A.I. artists, and asks how is it any different from Milli Vanilli, who was stripped of their Grammy

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You're definitely right on the mark there. But it's also not unreasonable to imagine that people who aren't making those decisions (i.e. the consumer) might have a very different relationship/reaction to it.

It remains to be seen whether or not people will really respond to this stuff. I'd love to believe they won't, that it will be found to lack that special sauce that makes people connect to music--even explicitly commercialized music. But I admit that's potentially some woo woo ass thinking, and it's a fact that you'll never go too far wrong underestimating the public.

Many popular Youtubers tried to game the system already with AI doing all the work and many of them LOST HELLA SUBSCRIBERS

I'll see if I can find a link

People want connection with their art/entertainment

 

[Json]

Let me be more specific. I meant how is it different in goals and desires by those invested and with much to gain? For someone with their salary based on profit margin, it might as well be washing machine belts. On quarterly review calls it's a product. In board meetings the art you love is not regarded the same way. Unfortunately. The ONLY reason this wouldn't take off is if people don't click it and stream it and use it in Reels. It won't be because they had a change of heart and valued artistic integrity. The people making these decisions do not care about that.

This isn’t true. If people won’t pay for it then it won’t work. They still need to sell the product.

But the point JD was making is there was a disqualfying line in making money. Just like in any industry. if you are falsely advertising your product, you can’t just shrug it off like oh well.

So if we aren’t going by the old line then a new one will be created.

 

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Many popular Youtubers tried to game the system already with AI doing all the work and many of them LOST HELLA SUBSCRIBERS

I'll see if I can find a link

People want connection with their art/entertainment

and many people gained thousands in a matter of a couple of weeks because of AI.

almost a million and I think this page is only 6 months old. I see a couple of celebrities subbed.

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I see Shaq of all people on sora everyday. not sure what he has planned but he's always making AI videos.

https://sora.chatgpt.com/p/s_690986ade25c8191a06f8333e388dd26?psh=HXVzZXItSjlyTkc3SzdEQ21acjA4WFQ2d0lnTXoy.hEn2_IIbfqz_

 

[Json]

Music has been so devalued by consumers that these appeals to old school values and connections with music simply fall on deaf ears. Kids consume viral songs and move on, they don’t care about or worship stars the same way. Throw on a playlist and KIM, if most people aren’t gonna look up half the artists on a playlist, so streaming services and record companies can save a ton by not having an artist to pay. JD’s argument works for Gen X and millennials, but Gen Z and definitely Gen Alpha don’t have the same connection to nor standards for music. people need to stop acting surprised that a generation of people who’ll go to a concert to hear one viral song and not know the rest of an artists catalog will embrace AI music.

I agree with your generational critic. The era of artist as musical acts solely is over.

But I think what people are actually asking which no one seems to want to answer is ”what is the standard”

These Ai creators want to be paid for their work even if the overall cost of touring and promoting are gone. People still want compensation and AI isn’t making music by itself. So what is the standard for an Ai artist? For oldheads, Milli Vanilli was a line. Not that artist haven’t used other voices on songs but they didn’t credit themselves as the singer. So in an era of prompt what makes a song created by one Ai artist belonging to them vs someone else remixing that Ai song into something that actually does become popular.

 

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