Literally building an instrument so I can have fun playing it... and making it has been pretty fun too.

Oh yeah, nobody spends years and decades mastering a skill set unless they hate it. Authors? They fucking hate books. Actors? They actually all want to work in finance. Teachers? You'd better believe there's nothing they hate more than explaining shit to children. And there's not an artist alive that wouldn't give up their art in a heartbeat if it meant they could live their dreams of working in customer service.

JFC some people will say anything to justify being a jackass.

every time these lizards say shit like this I get more vindicated in saying people who believe "ai" "art" is legitimately art are not human.

"making moosic with eenstrooments is such a terrible experience am I right fellow hoomans?"

no you fucking bot. people who do it are delighted by it and most of those who don't do it wish they could.

This man needs to be sentenced to 10 years solitary confinement in a room with 100 electronically controlled vuvuzelas serenading him at all hours of the day and night.

These type of stupid statements are meant to rile up people and generate free publicity. Don't feed the trolls.

Corporate will suck your soul and drink your blood when you're young. They will take or steal everything they can from you to accumulate money, just to make sure you would not have any other options than work for them until you die or get old and become useless. After that if you're lucky to climb the ladder they will push you off the building for certain death and replace with younger generation. Is that really the future we want ?

Stop listening to CEOs. They are fucking morons. And in this case I would argue his sentiment is corrupt and bias. He just wants to push his shitty product by down playing instrumentalists.

No AI will ever replace an artist like Prince. I’ll wipe my ass with any of this AI garbage.

That’s disingenuous and fucking dumb.

Granted, I personally no longer enjoy playing music, but I did it for about 22 years. It got old for me because I realized it was a hobby that was costing me money, and health.

I no longer desire to spend Friday and Saturday nights at bars, lugging gear around in order to play songs for a few drunk people. Like… when you break it down, it’s incredibly depressing.

CEO should have consulted an AI for backlash on that sentiment.

I enjoy playing instruments more than I do making music

Tech bros' lack of empathy means he literally can't imagine anyone liking something he doesn't.

Suno was what radicalized my stance on AI, and I refuse to use any of it.

As a solo hobbyist game dev who struggles with art, I had a pretty reserved approach for AI for stuff like art, animation or most notably voice acting, which makes the game a lot better but is really hard to do if you're not a native speaker or don't have a budget. My plan was to start with AI filling in places I couldn't do, but then pledge that 100% of the first sales will go towards paying an actual artist/VA and replace the assets as soon as possible. That felt like a fair compromise.

And then I tried Suno. You see, as a programmer, my line of work isn't really threatened by AI. Quite the contrary - it hinders the learning process of so many new programmer who will end up missing core skills, that it kind of increases my job security.

And since stuff like VA is something I don't really understand, I mostly considered it as an asset that AI can temporally provide.

After trying Suno, which makes something I am passionate about - I've tried and failed for the past few years to learn instruments, and starting a band and making music is one of my so far unattainable dreams, it was so, so devastating. To see something you've actively struggled with, dreamed about, and made an effort for to overcome the challenges, unsuccessfuly so far, be overtaken by a literal three word prompt, making a better song I probably ever will - it's so heartbreaking, demoralizing and awful. Which is something I haven't realized when thinking about art I was not invested into, but now, thanks to Sunk, I see how it must feel for every artist, and I refuse to support any of it. It gave me determination and motivation to make the effort towards meeting people who do VA or assets I need, and collaborating, even if it postpones everything by a long time.

Fuck AI, and fuck this guy. The product may be useful and is pretty mindblowing, but it comes at a cost of making a lot of artists demotivated and miserable. Also, saying that "music is hard, people don't want to" just adds salt to the wound, insult to the injury, and is really fucked up thing to say, after the product you've made affected and demoralized artists at large so much. Seriously, fuck that guy.

My coworker is using one of these sites and is uploading to YouTube. He says there's a lot of curating he's doing and listens to 14 hours of AI music a day to find the actual usable songs.

The songs he's shared are okay, I wouldn't have gathered they're AI besides that they're generic.

The thing I wonder is if people would accept this music knowing that it was generated.

more like it's one of the few things people still can enjoy.

FALSE.

I totally suck at the piano/keyboard but I still enjoy it so much

Gross

Music, even the boring practice, is one of the few remaining joys in my life

It's called projection..

I used to keep a piano keyboard next to my computer for loading downtime, and it was the least depressed days of my life.