During an appearance on an early edition of Balance Of Power, KISS bassist/vocalist Gene Simmons spoke to Bloomberg TV Washington correspondent Joe Mathieu about how artificial intelligence (A.I.) is revolutionizing the music industry through the use of A.I. music generators. These tools use machine learning algorithms to analyze existing music and create new compositions based on that analysis, including producing entire tracks using A.I.-generated music.
Asked if A.I. is a worry for him or not, Simmons said (as transcribed by blabbermouth.net), “A.I. is a concern if left unregulated. Anything — a beautiful horse that you just bring in, if it runs wild… You’ve got to have some parameters that we control instead of A.I. Right now, there’s a country and western star that’s got a number one record of sorts on some chart. [The artist] doesn’t actually exist.”
“The major problem here, potentially, hypothetically and otherwise, is that if states have the right, and this has to be settled right away — the government must get a federal law that encompasses all of A.I. to get some sanity out of this,” Simmons explained. “Because if you can do A.I. legally in Delaware, where you have all your companies so you pay less taxes… Why should they wanna do real music and real art in New York when they can just go to Delaware and do A.I.? No. You need a federal law that encompasses the entire country. And I would highly recommend, and I would hope the entire planet really gets together. It’s an issue for the UN to get a world body to accept it, because it’s gonna happen to the same — same thing that happened to the unions in America. You charge too much here, so we’ll do business in China. No. You want to address the A.I. issue worldwide so we can control what the rules are, the comings and the going and what’s the income stream? Who owns the I.P.? Who’s the owner of the trademark?”
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Forced obsolescence is what it is for all but the powerful and mighty. The digital currency phase has already begun.
Perfect era for Death Metal, sadly. I saw Cattle Decapitation last night in Portland. Wow, those guys can play, even if I can’t understand the lyrics.
AI is already in the wrong hands. Anyone see the last Mission Impossible? Might have a point in that film.
Merry Christmas Headbangers!
Unfortunately the use OF AI in the music business is all about money ,one person can use ( SUNO ) for example you pick a genre a tempo a theme song title in less than a Minute you get 3 versions of a song , so now if the person doing this works for a record company only 1 person gets paid money royalties etc.. no musicians or band to worry about , if the song gets real traction ,they just hire beautiful good looking actors to portray the band like milli vanilli to go out and play , the really sad part is music has been so devalued people dont and won’t care , and will buy it and go watch it , I think its here to stay
Totally depressing.
You know who I think could use AI? Yngwie Malmsteen, cuz other musicians find him a jerk to work with, so it might be easier for his well being. He could even use AI’s recorded tracks for his live shows and be the only person on stage. After all, in Yngwie’s mind, it’s all about him anyway
..guitar strangulation and leg kicks.
That’s brilliant, both accurate and true.