Thoughts in Progress: Music & AI
Unknown Artist aka Parker Todd Brooks + AI
It Ain't All Flowers (Cover) - Single, 2025, unreleased
https://untitled.stream/library/project/mj8U2nysxvDPUAwv4JFjw
Except from the post: PTB.LA: Winter/Spring 2025
I've started making music again... But I am not sure I would call it that. It's tricky. I have many mixed feelings...
I wrote this correspondence in February listening this song on repeat in amazement, "Hi from Paris. I typed what I wanted, and this song appeared. Not perfect, but close enough to strike a chord. It’s inevitable, like it or not, is all I keep thinking — and fighting it seems like the wrong approach...."
"When I say inevitably, when I look around, I see most if not all of the developments outside of few (Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhust) thinking how artists fit, or don’t, for that matter — it looks like pure innovation, with little sign of slowing down or regard for what has come before…
I have also said this before, "the faster we build software and hardware that encourages the monies paid can be equitably distributed based on the how training data is used in the outputs and derivative works, the better off everyone is. Waiting for the courts to decide and in turn regulatory oversight to start to build is not the answer… I am not sure if @sunomusic is in this mindset, but my instincts think they are following the path of @SoundCloud - eg rasie capital and distro at scale first, negotiate & pay later - and not iTunes/Apple Music - eg figure out how to pay FIRST before taking money to distro others copyrights.”
And I could be wrong in this thesis, but I think it would be pragmatic to explore how these technologies can work versus playing whack-a-mole like in P2P/CD ripping/DRM/early YouTube era and repeat all the same missteps."