"What is the end goal for AI musicians?"
"What is the end goal for AI musicians?"
Okay crap....
Someone laid it out plainly. they keep seeing the same TikTok pattern, plug an idea into Suno, get a song, slap an AI flyer together, market it, then get into pissing matches calling anyone who questions it an "AI Karen." their question wasn't hostile, it was just, what's the end game here?
...One reply cut straight through it. they just never had the talent or patience to make real music, and AI lets them cosplay the identity without the work. they want to be superstars, not musicians. the original poster agreed, called it playing dress up.
That same commenter said the real tell is guilt, that's why these people never admit it's AI until cornered, then scramble for reasons why typing "sad pop song, breathy vocal, guitar and strings" makes them just as legitimate as someone who built the skill.
Then it turned generous instead of bitter. the same person described sounding like garbage for over a decade before anything clicked, called that one of the most powerful experiences of his life, and said he genuinely wishes AI musicians put in the effort too, because they'd be happier if they felt that.
He traced his whole path, video game beats as a kid, Cubase, orchestral writing, years of bad cinematic music before landing in Baroque and his own strange corner of jazz, eventually settling on the Celtic tin whistle, an instrument he now carries in his bag for when he's drunk or happy enough to play it. he grew up with a father who tried to beat music out of him, and said being able to Google his own name and find his work now makes him prouder than almost anything else.
Someone else tied the money angle to something colder. AI is quietly penalized on the money side, but attention still works exactly the same for it, so the incentive to fake the craft never disappears, it just shifts targets.
The divide in this whole thread comes down to one thing. one side sounded like garbage for a decade and calls that the best part of the story. the other side skipped the part where you're allowed to be bad at something, and went straight to wanting to already be good at it.
If AI got you into music, are you using it to skip the grind, or as one more tool inside a grind you're already doing?
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I reckon the real divide is not AI versus no AI. It is whether the person is trying to develop taste, judgment and craft, or just borrow the appearance of having them.
Plenty of tools lower the barrier to entry. That part is not new. The issue is when the tool removes the uncomfortable feedback loop where you hear your own bad work, fix it, and slowly become someone with better instincts.
AI could be useful if it gets someone making, comparing, editing and learning faster. But if the goal is to skip straight to the identity of “artist” without owning the messy years, people can usually feel that. The work has no fingerprints.