This is the logical endgame of streamonomics: bots making music strictly and perhaps solely to be listened to by other bots. The only human interaction would be your monthly subscription fee.
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For all of the talk about “people power” and “liberating creativity” by the companies that market AI, it seems the average user isn’t being “freed” but fucked.
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Looking down the road, it appears AI generated music could be used not for unleashing the creative powers of amateurs, but to obtain copyright control over a large chunk of the music on streaming platforms. One company might hold the largest catalog of copyright tracks of any single entity in the world, “created” but not owned by people who mash a few buttons and filter out the worst of what’s produced by their AI — and creating a gigantic, exploitable copyright portfolio along the way.
Far from being a revolutionary attack on an unfair industry, we would again see the novelty of technology used as a Trojan Horse to get inside an exclusive club. You’re still not invited. But you can always become the next “Boomystar.”
https://5mag.net/features/boomy-ai-music-company-shitmusic-streams/
