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AI will take over music much like wax cylinder recording, 78 recording, vinyl recording, mono tape recording, cassette recording, multitrack recording, digital tape recording, compact disc recording, mini disc recording, mp3 recording, WAV recording and DAW recording have taken over music. It is just another technology that will make everything before it obsolete.

Did electric instruments make acoustic instruments obsolete? No. Did synthesizers make electric instruments obsolete? Nope. Has sampling made any of the above obsolete? Not at all. Will AI make anything else obsolete? Nope.

In corporate hands any new technology will dominate the marketplace and they will use it to fill the generic commodity market for music made that way just as they always have. Meanwhile, people will seek out superior talent using ALL technologies in interesting and creative ways. People STILL buy Vinyl. That is nearly 60 years out of date! My Dad had music on reel to reel in 1963!

If TALENTED people use all technologies, they will find a market. But hacks will also benefit as the music in their head will sound better than you could have ever done it without AI. In the end, it is just a set of computer code with no life experience or intelligence despite the branding. It is ALL human intelligence in there telling an otherwise empty slate computer what orders to run and how.

So relax. Though AI will be blamed for all the struggles of humanity, never forget that it IS those struggles, not experienced by AI, that create art as a response to that journey. The rest is just another arrow in YOUR quiver to shoot or leave stored away.